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

Bata Drums | Checkeres & Other Percussion | Miniatures

In addition to making batá drums, Ezequiel Torres also makes other percussion instruments such as:

• 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)

He also makes bantes (the beaded tapestries that cover the drums). These are not for sale.

Below are photos of instruments made by Ezequiel Torres:

Shekerés

Iyesá

Cajón