Hand drum

Types

Middle and Near East

• The tar is a frame drum common in Middle Eastern music.
• The tambourine is a frame drum with jingles attached to the shell.
• The daf and the dayereh are Iranian frame drums.
• The ghaval is the Azerbaijani frame drum.
• The tonbak is the Persian goblet drum.
• The doumbek is a goblet shaped drum used in Arabic, Jewish, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music.
• Mirwas

  Africa

• The most common African drum known to westerners is the djembe, a large, single-headed drum with a goblet shape.
• The Ashiko is another African drum in the shape of a truncated cone. Similar to the Djembe it is rope strung. This drum is easily recognized as having straight sides. The ashiko contrary to popular belief is traditionally mounted with wild game heads such as a gazzel. Most modern Ashikos are made with goat skin as a matter of convenience or legality. A more traditional-sounding Ashiko can be created using hand-picked goat skins that imitate the game skin or using deer skin. Ashiko drums are quite popular but less so than other types of hand drums and the difficulty in making sound like it should traditionally probably explains why they are less common. Most Ashikos found in common use have a non-traditional sound to them due to different skin types being used.
• Bougarabou are African drums with cow skin heads. The base of the drum is shorter than a djembe and the goblet shape less pronounced.

  Latin percussion

• Congas and bongos are essential to all kinds of Latin American music, especially that of the Caribbean and South American regions, used in both folklore and popular music such as merengue, salsa, son, boleros, bachata, cumbia, latin jazz, and others.
• The Tambora, a two-sided drum played with both a stick and a hand, is essential to the merengue dance of Dominican Republic.
• The pandero or plenera, is a percussion instrument included in the group of frame drums. A set of these hand drums from Puerto Rico is usually performed in plena music. There are three sizes, primo or requinto, segundo or seguidor, and tercero or tumbador.
• The maracas and timbales are widely played in popular music.
• The cajón is a box-shaped percussion instrument originating from Peru, primarily played in Afro-Peruvian music, as well as contemporary styles of flamenco and jazz.

  Far East and India

• Tabla are central to Indian music.
• The mridangam takes the main spot in Indian classical music.
• Kanjiras accompany the mridangam in carnatic music.
• Răbāna or Raban, Gáta Béra, Yak Béra and Udákkiya are used in Sri Lankan music.
• One drum head in Daŭla is played by hand, which is again used in Sri Lanka.
• Dhōlki is used both in Sri Lanks and India.
• Klong yao is the Thai "long drum" which is shaped like an elongated or stretched goblet and rope tuned.
• The tsuzumi and the ōtsuzumi are Japanese hand drums, used in traditional Noh and Kabuki theaters.

  Europe

• The Irish Bodhrán is sometimes played with the bare hand.