Davul

The large oriental drum.
Its roots can be traced back to biblical Babylon. Today it is played as far away as India, but is primarily known here as the Turkish davul.
 
  It is tied in front of the belly and beaten with a willow rod on one side, the lighter side, and with a thick wooden mallet on the other, the bass side.

We build the davul from a light, curved wooden body, which is braced using our tried and tested technique with a metal ring underneath and a wooden ring on top. We cover these drums with both goat skins and calf parchment.
For the high side, which is traditionally played with the rod, we usually cover it with goatskin parchment, while the bass side is covered with a thicker or natural goatskin or cattle parchment.
Depending on the size and covering, higher pitches can be achieved as well as distinct bass drums.
The drum is then tuned to the desired pitch using the wooden toggles arranged all round.

We make Davul in different sizes:

• 32x18 cm
• 40 x 25 cm
• 44 x 25 cm
• 48 x 30 cm
• 52 x 30 cm
• 56 x 30 cm

The most popular sizes are 48 and 52 cm im diameter.
But other sizes are also available.
The colour is a light wood colour like Teak or dark like walnut.

For the skins are goat skins, calf skin or goat with hair abailable.

In the traditional models, both heads are braced together. That means you cannot span one side independently of the other.
To get around this problem, we have developed a new tensioning construction where each side can be tensioned separately.

The cord is not pulled to the other side of the skin, but is fixed to points in the body. This now makes it possible to tune each side to a specific tone and also both tones of the Davul to each other. The keynote of one side still depends on the diameter and the choice of head. We only offer this system for the larger Davul from 48 cm.