Drumming Links
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Learning
The Fihrist of Bakhtiyar al-Rafiiq, the Canonical list of doumbek learning resources. More sources for learning the drum than you'll find anywhere.
Kamuran's Guide for Doumbek Players. Kamuran has a great site.
Blackroot Rhythms
Quick and Dirty Guide to the Doumbek
Middle Eastern Percussion Learning Resources
Old Town School occasionally has doumbek classes. Located here in Chicago.
Eric's Middle Eastern Drum Page Eric gives lessons and has some excellent music reviews on his site.
Buying drums
eBay Doumbeks
Mid-east Manufactuing is the granddaddy of all World Music instrument suppliers. I've bought drums and heads from them in the past.
Lark In The Morning
Remo Drums U.S.A. has some excellent World Music percussion instruments. I bought one and I love it!
Full Circle Drums Main
Touch The Earth Drums
Hawkdancing Ceramics
Bang A Drum
Donald's Drum Sales
Earthshaking Music
Vatan Musical Instruments These guys make and export instruments from Turkey. Some beautiful drums here, and they are very inexpensive if you can handle buying in bulk and dealing with international shipping.
Andy's Music at 2300 West Belmont, Chicago IL 60618. They have LOADS of ethnic instruments. This is just an e-mail link, as they don't seem to have a web site. This is where I bought my Remo doumbek. Recommended. You can call them at 773-868-1234.
Circles
Drumming Circle is home to Chicago's Rhythm Revolution. I've become a regular at their Friday Night Volumefests
TM
Arthur Hull's Drum Circle Site
Drum Fun Circles drum Facilitation At Its Best
Drumlinks
Upbeat Drum Circles - Home Page
Rhythms
Kamuran's Guide for Doumbek Players. Kamuran has a great site.
Jas -- Dum Tek Jas's drum pages, good stuff here. Even has a MIDI generator so you can HEAR the rhythms. Lots of good history here too.
Herman Rechberger's Home Page Mr. (Dr.?) Rechberger has written a book on Middle-Eastern Rhythms that I'm going to buy one of these days. Most/part of the book is online at this site, but due to the color scheme it is nearly unreadable.
Artists
Brothers Of The Baladi Home
David Korup
Peach Curry
Jamal Mohamed
Www.ronybarrak.com
Yousif Sheronick
Sirocco Middle Eastern Music
Mickey Hart
Souhail Kaspar's Homepage
Michael Zerang, Percussionist I don't know him, but he popped up in a search on "Doumbek" and "Chicago"
Humor
True History Of The Dumbek
Other
Al-musta'rib
Djembe-l Faq Lots of good general drumming info here.
Drummer's Advice To Dancers By Kirk Templeton For The Gilded Serpent
Rhythm Software Links
Rhythmweb - World Percussion And World Rhythms
JV Percussion Generator
World Of Musical Instruments
Zahadoom
Drum World
Percussion and Drum Links
Arabian Fest The Milwaukee Arabian Festival.
Helmholtz Resonance The Physics behind how a goblet shaped drum works, or why you get both doums and teks.
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