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Folk Dance Federation of California, South, Inc. Middle Eastern Goblet Drums By Ron Houston

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MIDDLE EASTERN GOBLET DRUMS

• Darbuka – Turkish.
• Darbukkah – Arabic for 4,000 year old Egyptian ceramic drum.
• Syrian manufactured metal drums.
• Tunisian and Moroccan variants.
• Also, Derbekki – Lebanese, Dorbakkeh – Egyptian.
• Doumbek, doumbeki, doumbekaki – Smyrnaic and Rembetic Greek.
• Dumbag, dumbeg – Turkish Armenian.
• Dümbelek – Turkish clay drum.
• Tablah – Arabic. Generic: any drum.
• Tarabouka – Greek.
• Tarabuk – Albanian.
• Tarabukka – Macedonian.
• Tempo – Farsi. Any goblet drum that is not a tombak.
• Tombak – proper Farsi.
• Toumbeleki – Greek.
• Zarb – Farsi (slang).

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