Which percussion instrument — a small hand drum with fish-skin or plastic head, essential for keeping the darbuka company in Egyptian ensembles — produces a crisp, high-pitched tone?

• A Daf
• B Riq ✓
• C Bendir
• D Tabla baladi

The riq is a small tambourine with five sets of double jingles, traditionally fitted with a fish-skin head, whose crisp articulation makes it the preferred percussion instrument for classical Arabic takht ensembles.