Hand-crafted instruments
from Anatolia, Persia & the Mediterranean.

A workshop for instruments
that don't fit a category.

Tapadum began in the quiet years of the pandemic. With concert halls closed, our founder Ozgur Yalcin — composer and frontman of the Turkish ensemble Kara Gunes — turned away from the stage and toward the workbench. He traveled through Turkey and Iran, spending months with master luthiers in small workshops, and saw what most musicians outside their home country already know: properly-made ethnic instruments are almost impossible to find. Too often, what looks like an oud or a santur is decorative — pretty, but unplayable. Two years later, in 2022, Tapadum opened in Italy. Today our showroom sits in Villa Vezzano, a small village outside Brisighella, while two workshops in Izmir — one for percussion, one for strings — build instruments for players who want more than appearance. If we wouldn't play it ourselves, we don't sell it.

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   Direct from masters. Our partner luthiers across Turkey, Iran and the Mediterranean send instruments to our showroom in Brisighella. What arrives in Italy comes straight from the workbench — no middlemen.
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   From our bench to your door. Every piece is inspected and set up by a specialist from our team — luthier, musician, academic — then packed by hand. (We tune them too, but tuning shifts in transit; we leave the final voicing to you.) Free express shipping across Europe, insured and tracked worldwide.
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   More than a shop The workshop continues. Custom builds in our Izmir workshops. Lessons through Tapadum Academy. Tapadum is the atelier, the store, and the school.
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   Talk before you buy. Not sure which instrument is right for you? Tell us how you'd play it — our specialists give honest, no-pressure advice based on how you'll actually use it.