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The Timba (more rarely:) Timbal or Timbau) is a frame drum of Brazilian music.
The conical body of Timba consists of painted Pressholz and is 7090 about cm high. The batter head plastic has a diameter of 1214 inches. The drum is worn mostly with a shoulder strap and hanging played before the abdomen, rarely does one stand.
The usual beats are Open tone the high and very loud Slap. The bass in the middle of the coat plays a smaller role than in comparable hand drums such as the Djembe or the conga.
The Timba, especially in the Samba pagoda occurred until the late of 1980s. When this form of music is as Surdo de mão (Handsurdo) across the knees lying played with one hand. Other Handsurdos are Rebolo, Repique de mão and Tantan. Carlinhos Brown was the first who used the Timba in the 1980s as a frame drum in his group Timbalada and thus a musical revolution in Salvador Bahia triggered. The Timba was a formative tool of Samba reggae and the Bloco afros. Until then, the Atabaque was the dominant Brazilian frame drum, is but too heavy to wear them, and therefore not in the carnival groups was played. Until today, the Timba has no input into the Samba-enredo the big samba schools of Rio de Janeiro found, play an important role but in groups that combine traditional with modern music.
