"Enko" redirects here. "-enko" is also a common suffix of Ukrainian surnames, meaning "son of". This is a list of membranophones used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Garifuna music, and Bermuda. It only includes membranophones that are indigenous to the local music area or are a vital and long-standing part of local culture. It does not include membranophones that are, for example, a part of Western style orchestras, nor does it include trap sets and other common membranophones used in popular music recordings of many genres across the world. Almost all membranophones are drums and percussion instruments. The Hornbostel-Sachs number is given after each instrument. {{#invoke: Navbox | navbox }} Instrument Tradition Complete classification Description agbe See chekere - agida Suriname 211.212 Afro-Surinamese bass drum that sets a steady beat for folk music, played with a stick, of the set with apinti and tumao, pitch can be varied based on the location of the head struck, made from hollow logs with heads of skin, used in spiritual ceremonies, where it is associated with snake spirits akete See kété - alcagüete See alcahuete - alcahuetealcagüete Dominican Republic 211.211.2-7 One of the smaller drums used in the ensembles called palos, of the Afro-Dominican religious ceremonies, played either in pairs or trios, with single skin heads either pegged or tacked amelé See okónkolo - apinti Suriname 211.211.2 Principal Afro-Surinamese drum of the set with agida and tumao, tenor drum, decorated with carvings, and used for communication by Surinamese slaves and for religious purposes in connection with sky and ancestor spirits, pitch can be varied based on the location of the head struck, made from hollow logs with heads of skin arobapáendóga Cuba 211.21-814 Drum used in Afro-Cuban Abakuá societies, small enkomo drum of the biankomeko ensemble, along with the kuchiyeremá and biapá, and the taller bonkó enchemiyá assotor Haiti 211.211.2 5-to-6-foot-tall (to Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character " tombas Guadeloupe 211.212.1 Bass drum, played with sticks toombahtumtum Antigua and Barbuda 2 Small drum, decorated with shells and tin tres golpes See conga - tres por dos Cuba 211.22 Medium-sized barrel-shaped hand drum of the tumbadora family true conga See bass tumbadora - tumba Cuba 211.221-7 Largest variety of the conga family, stave drum with a cowskin head tumbadorabass tumbadora, true conga, tres por dos, quinto Cuba 211.22.2 Cuban conga drum, barrel-shaped hand drum tumao Suriname 211.211.2 Intermediate drum of the set, with agida and apinti, played with one hand, pitch can be varied based on the location of the head struck, made from hollow logs with heads of skin tumtum See toombah - tumtum Barbados 211.212.1 Hollowed-out tree trunk with skins at either end tun French Guiana 2 Small drum, used among the Alukuó Maroons twavay, tambou Dominica 22 Small barrel frame drum, headed with goatskin; a cord with an attached bead is placed on the drumskin to add a buzzing quality to the sound, used to accompany work songs tymbale Haiti 212.212.1 Large two-headed hooped drum, carried with a strap and sometimes with an attached board called an assot tymbales See timbales - uyó Cuba 23 Abakua friction drum, details of construction are kept secret woowoo See French reel - xumpéFrench drum Cuba 211.22-861 Second-largest of the four drums used in the Haitian-Cuban Arada ceremonies, along with hugán, hun-hogúlo and huní yukamakuta, ngoma, tambor de yuka Cuba 211.211.2 Class of three folk tubular drums: caja, mula, and cachimbo zesse Haiti 22 Cylindrical drum used in the dance of the same name, has a wire stretched across the single goatskin head
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