Arabinstruments Blog
The New Generation Darbuka: Perfect for Beginners and Pros Alike
The new generation darbuka is an excellent choice for both beginner and professional players. This solo model has an 8.6-inch (22 cm) skin, making it larger than the standard darbuka but smaller t...
The Healing Beat: The Benefits of Darbuka Drumming for Children and People with ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects both children and adults, characterized by symptoms such as hyperactivity, impulsivity, and difficulty ...
Essential 8 Tips for Preserving Your Ceramic Doumbek with Goat/Fish Skin
Proper maintenance is crucial for ensuring the longevity, performance, and pristine condition of your ceramic darbuka. By implementing regular care routines, you not only preserve the instrument's ...
From the Hands of Masters: The True Story of Mother of Pearl Darbuka Drums.
Mother of pearl is a material that has been used in various forms of art and decoration throughout history. In Egypt, it has been traditionally used to decorate and embellish musical instrument...
Exploring the Advantages of Learning to Play the Darbuka and How it Can Enrich Your Life
Exploring the Advantages of Learning to Play the Darbuka and How it Can Enrich Your Life The darbuka, has been played for centuries in various cultures around the world. It is a versatile instr...
The Main Reasons Why You Must Have a Mother of Pearl Darbuka
The process of creating a mother of pearl darbuka is a meticulous one that requires skilled artisans. First, the drum is made from high-quality materials such as aluminum or copper, which are c...
The Best ways to keep your darbuka in a perfect condition
The magic of Darbuka Drums is in the sounds it releases. The drums are fragile, especially those covered with pearls or made out of clay/ceramic. These materials need protection from scratches and ...
DARBUKA META - OUR NFT COLLECTION
A New NFT Collection in the Market. Darbuka Meta is the first to transform the darbuka drums into an NFT collection, and it was through them that the reflection of ancient Egyptian cultur...
What So Special About The Crown Darbuka
The Crown Darbuka Over the last 12 years, we have built and designed thousands of darbuka models for almost every playerβs level. In mid- 2019 Arab Instruments decided to design a premium darbuk...
How Do We Build Our Ceramic Darbuka
OUR DARBUKA VISION When we decided to build a clay darbuka we were determined that it should have the best resonance sound and also look impressive. Arab Instruments' owner "Assaf" has the foll...
Sombaty Plus Darbuka - Everything You Need to Know
What is so fascinating about Sombaty plus Darbuka? What do you want the most in your musical instrument? Whether it is a wide variety of perfectly-tuned sounds and timbres, durability, or aestheti...
Who Needs The Darbuka Defender?
What is the Darbuka Defender and why should you use it? If you play the Darbuka, you know that this is an amazing, but also super-fragile instrument. You need to pay a lot of attention to the way y...
Our Custom Design Darbuka - It's About Time to Have a Unique Darbuka
One of the most exciting job we have here in Arab Instruments, is to make your dream come true. Beside all the amazing staff we are doing on a daily basis, we took on our self the mission to desig...
Which Darbuka Skin / Head Will be the Best Choice - Doumbek Skin Full Review
As you all probably know, different players use different types of darbuka skins and there are so many skins out there which produces different sounds. In this article we will try to explore the d...
Baraka Ceramic Darbuka - Why Are They So Special?
For many years, the ceramic darbuka maker "Baraka" (from Hungary) build a professional ceramic darbukas for the top players around the world. Baraka build his darbukas in different technic from oth...
Emin Percussion, What So Special About His Doumbeks?
Music is an important part of human life, we listen to the music in our daily life and it has a great affect on people. Some are inspired by the good music and some people consider music as refresh...
Arab Instruments Trio - This Year Is Yours
Here in Arab Instruments we are trying to provide sound samples for almost every musical instruments we have in our website.This time we have decided to collect our team and to play something toget...
What So Special About a Blue Pearl Darbuka
When you dive into the world of mother of pearls Egyptian darbukas you will find out that there are two types of mother of pearls doumbeks. The first one is the white / yellow pearls which is th...
10 things you should know about the bendir and the mazhar drums
Drums can be found in almost all sizes and shapes, largely with regards to the origins with the drum as well as the tradition in which produced the use through the entire age groups. Drums, nonethe...
8 reasons; why to learn playing the Doumbek Today
Those who are doumbek lovers already have known playing it and who are interested in playing it would know how much fun playing it. On the other hand numerous players donβt give the right regard fo...