Waterdrum - AV 507

INFO
Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound. Water drums are used all over the world, including American Indian music, and are made of various materials, with a membrane stretched over a hard body such as a metal, clay, or wooden bowls. Here we have these wooden bowls brought to us by AfroTon, manufactured to exact specifications in selected production sites in the Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
 
- Different sized pumpkin shells (calabashes)
- Painted inside
- Warm to light timbre,
- Our »underwater bass«
- Is traditionally played mainly by women of the Senufo or Malinke
- One of the large bowls is filled with water, a smaller bowl is placed upside down on the water and played with hands or padded mallets. The water level affects the sound
- Mali, Ghana, Guinea