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The family of percussion instruments is the largest one among all the families of instruments. This means that a percussionist has to make choices concerning which kind of instrument he or she wants to play.
Gilles Obermayer has been focusing on ethnic instruments from: Africa, West-India and Latin-America. He has been traveling, studying, performing and doing research work on the African continent from 1982 to 1998. He has visited and studied in: Angola, Cameroun, Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea Equatorial, Ivory Coast and The Central African Republic.
In West India and Latin America, Gilles visited and studied in The Dominican Republic, Argentina and Brazil.
Gilles Obermayer has a large collection of ethnic percussion instruments of all kinds: balafons (bambara, madinka),
berimbaos (viola, gunga), drums (bougarabous, derboukas,
djembés, ébrié,tamas tamboras, tumbas...), frame-drums (bendirs, duffs, pandereta, pandeiro, rekh,...), thumb pianos (marimbula, m'bira, sanzas), etc....
Gilles is also using "modern manufactured" instruments such as: congas (Gon-Bops, Michel Delaporte), cymbals (Ufip), drum-set, roto-toms as well as electronic percussion such the SPD 11.
In Stockholm Gilles Obermayer buys his instruments at Birka Musik.
In New York Gilles Obermayer buys his instruments at Drummers World.