timbales
Sign in to savethumb|right|Sound of timbales Timbales () are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Timbales
- Instrument.names
- Timbaleta, pailas, pailas criollas
- Instrument.image
- Timbalesy HLTBR-1011 firmy Hayman.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Timbales with a single cowbell
- Instrument.background
- percussion
- Instrument.classification
- drum
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- percussion
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- membranophone
- Instrument.developed
- c. 1900 in Cuba
- Instrument.related
- Timpani, bongo drum
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15 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Origins and popularization
- In the United States
- Technique
- Baqueteo
- Bell patterns
- Solos
- Típico style
- Rumba quinto rhythmic vocabulary
- Derivative instruments
- Timbalitos
- Mini timbales
- Marching Timbales
- References
thumb|right|Sound of timbales Timbales () are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.
Timbales are struck with wooden sticks on the heads and shells, although bare hands are sometimes used. The player (called a timbalero) uses a variety of stick strokes, rim shots, and rolls to produce a wide range of percussive expression during solos and at transitional sections of music, and usually plays the shells (or auxiliary percussion such as a cowbell or cymbal) to keep time in other parts of the song. The shells and the typical pattern played on them are referred to as cáscara. Common stroke patterns include abanico, baqueteo (from danzón), mambo, and chachachá.