Pejman Hadadi, a "virtuoso" daf and tombak player, constructs New Daf Drum in suiting the Remo skin on Iranian Kurdish daf.

Remo manufactures over 30 years Frame drums, Tambourines and Frame drum Heads. The inspiration to create the Daf drum from the Classical Sufi music traditions in Iran (Persia) with a humidity resistant head due to master Iranian drummer, Pejman Hadadi.

Hadadi daf drum is constructed with the beautiful Skin-deep graphic drumhead of Remo that is pre-tuned on a twenty-one inch lightweight drum shell. Remo’s daf head produces rich Tek tones and full Bass tones while also featuring hundreds of chrome metal rings attached on the inner wall of the shell in interlocked sets of four rings. These chrome metal rings produce a unique percussive sound when shaken and a buzz or snare like sound when touching the drumhead.

After getting diverse synthetic head dafs more and more popular Santoori.com decided to show the quality or authentic timbre of the different Iranian daf types with nature and synthetic heads by recording 5 daf solo performances under the same recording condition, in order to show these contrasts of the sound qualities.

These daf performances was created in Tehran, Iran in June of 2010 in the Aftabe Alamtab Studio under cooperation of Santoori.com, Mehrdad Zahedian, the Iranian great documentary director and Mohammad Jaberi, Iranian master class daf player.
 

Santoori.com at this point would love to say his thanks to ideally cooperation of Mehrdad Zahedian, Mohammad Jaberi and Amirabbas Setayeshgar in advance.