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OCR: FACTS BoX NAME: DARABUKKA FAMILY: Percussion. PERCUSSION MA TERIAL: Pottery wood, or metal with skin head SIZE: Variable ORIGINS: Goblet drums like the dar: abukka were in use in the temples of Babylonia and Sumeria (moderm- -day Iraq} GOTOMAP as long ago 1100 BC. The instrument now common across the Arab world of the Middle East and North Africa. CLASSIFICATION: Membranophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration n a stretched skin DID YOU KNOW? The darabukka has been employed in western orchestral music by certain celebrated composers. sucH n as the European contemporaries Jacques Ibert (1890 1962) of France and Cari Orff 1895 1982} of Germany PERCUSSIOH modern GOTOMP Arah ophone Carl