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MIDDLE EASTERN GOBLET DRUMS

• Darbuka – Turkish.
• Darbukkah, Dumbek – Middle East, Arabic for 4,000 year old Egyptian ceramic drum.
• 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.
• Tarambuka, Tarbuka – Bulgarian.
• Tempo – Farsi. Any goblet drum not a tombak.
• Tombak – proper Farsi.
• Toumbeleki – Greek.
• Zarb – Farsi (slang).

• Syrian manufactured metal drums.
• Tunisian and Moroccan variants.

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• Middle East, a region.

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