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My first encounter with the tarambuke took place in the theatre. A band was playing an energetic dance and suddenly I heard rhythmic beats that awakened forgotten memories. Vivid colours, strange voices and sweet perfumes came surging back to take the shape of an exotic fairytale festival.
It was in India. We had been invited to a wedding. A very young musician played a strange instrument that looked a little like the one producing the rhythmic sounds in the Bulgarian theatre. The young man wore a long white tunic. His skilful hands beat the drum rapidly and lightly.
It is this memory that inspired me to find out more about the Bulgarian instrument called the tarambuke. I learned that it is an instrument of the membranophone family and is always played together with other folk instruments...