The Darbuka is an ancient Arab instrument. Originally, this drum was played in Turkey, Iran and other Arab countries.

Today, the Darbuka is used to make music all over the world.

The body of this drum is usually made of aluminum and the exterior of the Darbuka is decorated with various materials (wood, plastic and shell inlay). The eardrum of the Darbuka often consists of synthetics.

The Darbukas I build are tunable and worked from selected solid woods such as walnut, maple, pine, beech and others. I cut wooden rings and then glue them together to build the drum body in two parts.

As a skin for this drum, I use fish skin. Fish skin has the touch quality of real fur, but the sound of a synthetic. The fish skin is spanned over the two rings.

Depending on the size of the Darbuka, it has six to eight screws with which the skin on the drum body can easily be tuned.