Description
Mulberry Tombak by Shirani — Warmth in a Classic Tonewood
Long before walnut became the workshop standard, Persian makers reached for mulberry — and many players still call it the most musical wood of all. Shirani’s ribbed mulberry tombak is a three-mohr drum from Isfahan that leans into that heritage: warm, golden and sweetly resonant, with a ribbed bowl that nods to old-school craft.
Mulberry, the Traditional Choice
Mulberry (toot) runs deep in Iranian lutherie — it is the wood of the setar and of the santur’s bridges — and it carries that musicality into a drum: a warm, singing tone, golden in colour, sitting between walnut’s darkness and ash’s brightness. Shirani turns the shell, rings the lower bowl with fine lathe-cut grooves, and finishes it in a high gloss that warms the honeyed grain.
The Voice
A 27 cm camel-skin head gives this lighter, 3.8 kg drum a focused, rounded tom and a clear tek — well suited to expressive solo playing and the rapid riz rolls of the tonbak repertoire. The woven Esfahan · Shirani band and the three-mohr seal of Shirani confirm the grade.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Maker | Shirani (Isfahan, Iran) |
| Instrument | Persian Tombak (Zarb) |
| Grade | 3 Mohr (three-seal) |
| Body | Mulberry — single turned shell, ribbed |
| Head | Natural camel skin |
| Head diameter | 27 cm |
| Height | 49 cm |
| Weight | 3.8 kg |
| Finish | High-gloss lacquer |
| Decoration | Turned ring grooves + Shirani woven band + burned seal |
| SKU | SH4 |
Who It’s For
27 cm head, 49 cm tall, 3.8 kg — the lightest of the four, for the player drawn to mulberry’s warm, traditional character and a ribbed, tactile bowl for Persian classical music. For a brighter, paler alternative, see the ash model (SH2); for darker depth, the walnut (SH1).
Care
Keep this natural-skin drum away from direct heat and damp, let it acclimatise after travel, and wipe the lacquered mulberry with a dry cloth. There is nothing to tune — like every tombak, it answers to the room and the hand. Explore the wider Persian tombak collection for more woods and sizes.
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