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Middle Eastern Percussion
from an article at www-2.cs.cmu.edu
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Instruments
If you have any options in the matter, I recommend that you buy your
instruments in person, so that you can try them out and get an idea of how they will
sound. If this is your first drum, and you don't know *how* to play yet, try to take
someone along who does know what the drum should sound and feel like when it's played, and
get them to test it out. But if there aren't any stores in your area, you may have to rely
on mail order. Here are some sources I've found:
I also obtained a list of addresses for obtaining drums of various
kinds, not necessarily middle eastern, by writing to The Foundation for Shamanic
Studies, Box 670, Belden Station, Norwolk, Conneticut. USA 06852, and asking them
for their list of drum sources.
Mail-Order Addresses:
Audrena's International Bazaar
"Audrena travels the world to obtain the best and most original
supplies for the amateur and professioal middle eastern dancer. Complete belly dance
supplier. Videos, tapes, CDs, costumes and accessories. "
9720 South Mason Avenue
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
Phone: 1-800-327-3406
Email: flpa98a@prodigy.com
Website
Alethea
For more information on Alethea's bellydance instructional tapes, see
the Veil and Drum pages,
or contact:
Alethea
2070 Battle Row
Augusta GA 30904
Boston Music Co.
"The REMO pre-tuned hand drum is remarkably inexpensive, and a
good beginning drum. This single-headed round frame drum with a mylar head is available
widely in ordinary musical instrument stores in North America. If you cannot obtain one
locally, you may want to order one from: Boston Music Co.
Boston Music Co.
116 Boylston Street
Boston, MA
USA 02116
Phone: 617-426-5100
Brothers of Baladi.
A middle eastern band from the Oregon area, Brothers of Baladi have
been active since 1975. They draw on Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Armenian & North
African traditions, both instrumental and vocal. They are available for both traditional
concerts and for world music dance parties, with or without accompanying dancers! Member
Michael Beach also leads world music drum and rhythm workshops at all levels, and sells a
beginning drumming instruction video.
Brothers of Baladi
Email: mbeach@aracnet.com
Website
Collage Video
Collage puts out a mail-order catalog containing a wide variety of
fitness videos.
Collage Video Specialties, Inc.
5390 Main St. NE, Dept. 1
Minneapolis, MN
USA 55421
Phone Orders: 1-800-433-6769
Information: 612-571-5840
Fax: 612-571-5906
Cooperman Fife and Drum Company
"This is a manufacturers site for percussion including a section
shown by frame drums - when there you'll see a listing of tars, bendirs, haddjira and so
forth along with a listing of some instructional materials."
Cooperman Fife and Drum Company.
Essex Industrial Park PO Box 276
Centerbrook CT 06409-0276 USA
Email: info@cooperman.com
Phone: 860-767-1779
Fax: 860-767-7017
Website
DeSELBY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Primarily a mail-order source for music by Boiled in Lead and other
world music artists, DeSelby also includes this instructional video in their most recent
catalog.
DeSELBY PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Postbox 7367
Minneapolis MN 55407 USA
Phone Orders: [612] 379 0405
Fax: [612] 379 0354
Email: tunes@omnium.com
Website
Distant Caravans
"For people interested in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Belly
Dancing, Ethnic Jewelry, Amber & lots of other great stuff. Products from Afghanistan,
Egypt, India, Pakistan, Poland and the USA., " Includes Cassettes and Videos.
Distant Caravans
PO Box 5254
Reno, NV 89513
702-746-0416
Email: Barb @DISTANT-CARAVANS.reno.nv.us
Website
Earthshaking Music
"Earthshaking Music carries a wide range of imported ethnic
instruments from all over the world: Australia, Africa, Brazil, the Middle and Far East.
As a source for Middle Eastern instruments, we stock an array of instruments from dumbeks,
riqs, tars, bendir etc. to ouds, sintir, genbri, ney and megwes ney. (The inlaid metal
dumbek is incredible!) Our media catalog has over 300 titles of world music, including
items by Robin Adnan Anders and Mary Ellen Donald. Instrument and media catalogs are free,
and we ship anywhere."
Earthshaking Percussion
P.O. Box 18372
Atlanta GA 30316
Phone Orders: [800] 646-6795 ext. 7262
Fax/Phone Enquiries: [404] 624-3349
Email: erthshkn@avana.net
Website
FatChanceBellyDance
FatChanceBellyDance's HomePage Order Catalog presents what the dance
group has found to be the "best of" bellydance music, costuming and accessories.
Audiences have shown so much enthusiasm, that they have decided to make the collection
available by mail.
FatChanceBellyDance
PO Box 460594
San Francisco, CA 94146 USA
Phone Orders: [415] 647 6035
Email:
Website
Interworld Music
Interworld has a variety of ethnic drumming videos, recordings, and
method books, as well as a limited supply of gongs, bells, and frame drums. I've only
listed those items relating to middle eastern drumming: for detailed reviews of these and
other Interworld videos, check out Dirty Linen, Issue 52, June/July 1994.
Interworld Music
RD3 Box 395A
Brattleboro, VT
USA 05301
Phone Orders: 1-800-257-5519
Information: 802-257-5519
Fax: 802-257-9211
Website
Jonathan Kessler
Jonathan Kessler
1812 Gillespie Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101 USA
Phone Orders: (805) 898-0663
Email: : kesslari@ix.netcom.com
Website
Ramona Klein
Ramona Klein
885 Dogwood Park Drive
Lawrenceville, Georgia
USA 30245
David Korup
David Korup (pronounced Dah-Veed)
5809 Ryder Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28226-8305
Phone: 704-544-2212
Phone: 888-324-8333 Toll Free (outside NC)
Email: drumfest@bellsouth.net
Ladyslipper, Inc.
Ladyslipper publishes an extensive mail order catalog, with 1 paragraph
reviews, focusing primarily on music by and for women in a wide variety of styles. An
excellent resource for small independents and for music that is responsive to gay,
lesbian, and feminist issues.
Ladyslipper, Inc.
P.O. Box 3124
Durham, NC.
USA 27715
Phone Orders: 1-800-634-6044
Information: 919-683-1570
Fax: 919-682-5601
Website
Lark In The Morning
From the ocarina to the bowed psaltery, from the darabukka to the
hurdy-gurdy, there's a good chance that if you want an obscure ethnic instrument, you'll
find it in this catalog.
Lark in the Morning
P.O. Box 1176
Mendocino, California
USA 95460
Phone: 707-964-5569
Fax: 707-964-1979
Website
Mary Ellen Books
Mary Ellen Donald teaches a variety of middle-eastern instruments. Her
instructional books and cassettes include dumbek, tambourine, finger cymbals, and others.
Mary Ellen Books
P.O. Box 7589
San Francisco, CA
USA 94120-7589
Phone: 415-826-DRUM
Mid-East Mfg.
Advertising Folke Instruments of the Knowne Worlde, Mid-East carries a variety of intriguing instruments
from around the world. While I drool over their ouds and santoors, I've mostly fallen prey
to the lure of ceramic and metal doumbeks, tars, tambourines, defs, and tupans. They also
have some very good carrying cases for ceramic doumbeks.
Mid-East Mfg. Inc.
7694 Progress Circle
West Melbourne, Florida
USA 32904
Phone: 407-724-1477
Fax: 407-952-1080
Email: stevek@mid-east.com
Website
Oasis
Oasis is a mediterranean and middle eastern dance band, particularly
popular with dancers throughout the United States. In addition to the The Drums of Oasis, which is a good practice tape for drummers
and dancers, Oasis has produced a number of other recordings: Songs from the Oasis,
Night at the Oasis, and their latest, Evolution (1994).
Oasis: Denis Kavemeier
12448 W. Cleveland Ave.
New Berlin, WI
USA 53151
Phone: 414-821-0301
Email: denisk@execpc.com
Website
Percussion East: Fine Percussion & Wind
Instruments from the Lands of the East
"Percussion East is an importer and retailer of some of the finest
percussion and wind instruments from the Arabic countries, Armenia, Persia, and Turkey. We
offer these professional instruments at prices well below our competitors simply because
we buy direct and in bulk. Being professional musicians and having grown up in the Arabic,
Armenian, Persian, and Turkish cultures we know where to look and what to look for when
purchasing instruments. We are also offering gift items (such as a mini decorative oud,
instructional material (translated from Arabic and Persian as well as books produced in
the US), and a collection of tapes and CD's featuring the best authentic music from Arabic
countries, Armenia, Persia, and Turkey."
Percussion East
P.O. Box 1629
Southampton, PA 18966
USA
Email: percussion@threebirds.com
Website
Remo, Inc.
"REMO, Inc. manufactures an entire line of World Percussion
products, including: Bombos, Gathering Drums, and other frame and full shell drums of many
different origins. For information and an extensive catalogue, contact:
Remo, Inc.
Customer Service
12804 Raymer St.
North Hollywood, CA
USA
Phone: 818-983-2600
Rhythm Fusion
"Instruments and Sound Makers from Around the World"
Rhythm Fusion, Inc.
P.O. Box 3226
Santa Cruz, CA
USA 95063
Phone: 408.423-2048
FAX: 408.423-2073
Email: rhythm@rhythmfusion.com
Website
Soraya
SORAYA
P.O. Box 3284
Margate, NJ
USA 08402
Voice Mail: (609) 823-2029
E-mail: TTotahNCCM@aol.com
Website
The Tactus Press
The Tactus Press offers a number of percussion books in addition to Tambourine: The Happy Sound and Historic
Percussion - A Survey, including "Castanuelas, Ole", and "Royall
Drummes & Mariall Musick".
The Tactus Press
P.O. Box 9704
Austin, TX
USA 78766-9704
Phone: San: 297-6498
ThunderHeart
Drums
"ThunderHeart Drums offers a blending of traditional design and
contemporary craftsmanship. Each drum has been thoroughly researched to be faithful to the
cultural tradition from which it has emerged; then, where appropriate, modern materials
and techniques have been applied to make a better sounding, versatile and trouble-free
drum. All the drums are finished both inside and out with a custom blended oil finish and
are fitted with a superior quality goatskin head."
John Millen
ThunderHeart Drums
4437 Clifton Road
Baltimore, Maryland
USA 21216
Phone: NA Fax: NA Email: thunderheart@pobox.com
Website
Tribe of Kings Handmade Darboukas
THREE WISHES POTTERY
RR 1 BOX 321 ANDES, NEW YORK 13731
Phone: 914 - 676 - 3395
Email: WWWISHES@aol.com
Website
Visionary Dance Productions
Visionary Dance Productions offers a number of belly-dance related
videos, featuring Delilah, and also tapes and cds of music composed for the videos by
Steve Flynn. In addition to the instructional tapes listed above, titles include
"Delilah's Costume Workshop", "Delilah and Sirocco, Live and Wild",
"The Spirit of Oriental Dance", "Goddess Grace: A Moving Meditation",
"Dance Delilah, Dance!", and "Dance to the Great Mother".
Visionary Dance Productions
P.O. Box 30797
Seattle, WA
USA 98103
Phone: (206) 632-2353
Further information, or corrections, are always appreciated.
Descriptions of items in quotation marks are quoted from the advertising of the suppliers
themselves; unquoted descriptions are my own summaries from available information. I am
not personally familiar with all of the materials described.
I have no formal association with any of the companies or sources noted
above, and therefore do not guarantee the absolute accuracy of the information on this
page. (i.e. If someone moves, I won't necessarily hear about it.)
mmbt@cs.cmu.edu
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