Description
From 7 to 14 inches, the PVC Tanga opens the doors to a thousand-year-old percussion at a low cost.
Since the dawn of time, percussion instruments have had a thousand and one forms or materials that can be summed up as a skin stretched over a drum. As for the djembe, it seems to have come from mortars used to pound millet, a sort of hourglass or diabolo if you prefer. Moreover, legend has it that originally, the djembe consisted of two mortars, pierced and therefore unusable, joined together to form a particularly sonorous percussion instrument.
Attribute of the griots.
A member of the membranophone family, the djembe comes from West African countries, and is particularly attached to the Malinke people of Northern Guinea before spreading throughout Africa where it played an important role in the social life of villages, an attribute of the griots, these singing musicians who are historians of their tribe. And if the first examples were made of tree trunks hollowed out with an axe before being covered with stretched goatskin, it did not take long for Western societies to test, sometimes successfully, different materials such as PVC. This contributed to its development in our countries where it happily accompanies pop, blues or rock.
Endless variations.
The reason for the success of this percussion? Its power and harmonic richness. Because the djembe delivers both low sounds and full tones, rich in medium frequencies, and allows infinite variations depending on where it is struck on the skin. Obviously, with these PVC Tanga, you do not go back to the plant and animal sources of the instrument but you have a percussion as effective as the original models of course, but also easier to maintain and keep in good condition.