Usually means: African drum played with hands.
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  1. djembe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. djembe: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Djembe, djembe: Wordnik
  4. djembe: Wiktionary
  5. Djembe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. djembe: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. djembe: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.

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djembé, jembe, djimbe, jimbe, dyinbe, jenbe, darbuka, hand drum, dhak, ngoma drum, more...

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djembé, jembe, djimbe, jimbe, dyinbe, jenbe, darbuka, hand drum, dhak, ngoma drum, more...



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