Ezequiel's Hand-Made Percussion Instruments
Checkeres & Other Instruments

Bata Drums | Checkeres & Other Percussion | Miniatures
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In addition to making batá drums, Ezequiel Torres also makes other percussion instruments such as:

• Congas (quinto, conga and tumba)
• Guataca (a hoe blade or cowbell played with a striker)
• Shekerés (a gourd covered with a net of beads and/or cowries)
• Cajónes (drums) (a drum like a wooden box)
• Iyesá (drums) (a set of four sacred, cylindrical, two-headed drums of hand-carved cedar, played with sticks)
  

Below are photos of instruments made by Ezequiel Torres:

Shekerés

Iyesá

Cajón