Alfaia Bumbo Maracatu Oak - Buriti
Alfaia Bumbo Maracatu Oak - Buriti
| item number: | A642018 |
| material: | plywood |
| head: | hide head on wood rim |
| total height: | 32-38 cm |
| weight (net): | 2,8 kg |
Artisanal wood alfaia - bumbo de Maracatu by Buriti Percussão - oak optics
Lovely and light-weight, beautifully made alfaias with top sound and typical northeast style ornaments.
The powerful thunder of a Maracatu has an impressive effect. This music style from the northeast of Brazil is traditionally played on wooden bass drums, the bumbos (or also: bombos, new age: alfaias) with string tuning. The skins are strong and suitable for the unpadded, thick wood beaters that produce the authentic, massive sound. Beautifully and creatively built in a small workshop in Lisbon, selected hide heads, woods and functional strings combined to a high-quality, modern yet traditional instrument. This model is finished off with oak veneer with pretty ornaments.
- Lightweight
- very good sound qualities
- rims are made of layer-bonded plane and pine wood
- Light-weight shell made of white poplar wood with oak verneer
- Buriti natural look finish with Buriti stencil motifs
- cords 8mm polypropylene / polyester mixture
Even today Maracatu is still a very popular percussive rhythm of Afro-Brazilian origin, characterised by the powerful sounds of its bass drums. Maracatu originated during slavery, probably between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from the musical mixture of Portuguese, indigenous and African cultures, where today the state of Pernambuco lies.
Buriti is a brand from Lisbon, Portugal that makes handmade percussion instruments. The brand's name is inspired by the Buriti palm tree native to the central and northern regions of South America and is also the name of a region within the Brazilian state of São Paulo where the brand's founder, Fabricio Soares, comes from. His bumbos are made individually and lovingly by hand.
| diameter in inches | 14'' | 16'' | 18'' | 20'' | 22'' |
| height in cm | 33cm | 38cm | 36cm | 35cm | 35cm |
| rim height in cm | 4cm | 4,5cm | 4,5cm | 4,5cm | 4,5cm |
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"Buriti"
Buriti is a brand from Lisbon, Portugal that manufactures handmade percussion instruments. The brand's name is inspired by the Buriti palm tree native to the central and northern regions of South America, and is also the name of a region within the Brazilian state of São Paulo where the brand's founder, Fabricio Soares, is from.
Buriti has made it its mission not only to build Brazilian percussion instruments, but also to tailor them to the different needs of drummers and percussionists in Portugal and Europe. Quality, reliability and fair prices are just some of the characteristics of their beautifully handcrafted instruments.
Their vision is to achieve recognition for high quality instrument making by equipping their product range with unique features, loving details and authentic sounds and to present their work with and through a team of professional musicians.
Buriti also has a number of values that we particularly enjoy including into our range: Commitment, dedication, teamwork, innovation, quality, ethics and respect as well as the preservation of the Brazilian percussive culture are also priorities to Buriti.
Buriti Percussion has a team of musicians and drummers spread across Europe. Like a family united by the sounds and magic of Brazilian percussion. Buriti's ambassadors represent Brazil's cultural diversity from Recife to Berlin, from Rondônia to Lisbon, from Minas Gerais to Switzerland, preserving and spreading their love for music by also referring to the tradition and roots of this culture.
