A goblet-shaped drum with a single head, widely used in Middle Eastern, North African, and Turkish music.
From Arabic 'darbūkah' or Turkish 'davulbakka,' possibly from Arabic 'daraba' (to strike) plus Turkish elements; the word traveled west with Ottoman culture.
The darabukka is hearing thousands of years of percussion history—its distinctive chalice shape is specifically designed to project that warm, woody bass sound, and you can hear it driving the heartbeat of music from Egypt to Morocco.
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