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aus5tin · 04-28-2003, 07:38 AM

anyone here got any experience building Handrums?
Specifically Djembe and dumbek?

Antagony · 04-28-2003, 04:40 PM

Hmmm, I'm a percussionist, so I've played on these instruments.

But make one?

Not to dash your hopes, but I think it'd be next to impossible to make a play-worthy afro-percussion instrument without any previous experience.

Of course, I suppose you've gotta start somewhere if you're interested in that sort of thing!

I would suggest searching around on http://www.everything2.com as they have many nodes concerning "make your own" type things.

britishboy3010 · 04-29-2003, 07:30 PM

Im a percussionsit, and the best I can do is make drumsets. Maybe there is a shell you can buy for making them? (shell is wooden part)

aus5tin · 05-02-2003, 05:28 AM

Everything's cool.
I just found out that one of my boys has a huge lathe and thanks to last fall's hurricane we've got lots of mayterial, mostly water oak. So we're gonna turn down some Djembe and Zarb (a wooden doumbek) shells!
now I just need ti find raw goat skins...

MSD · 05-02-2003, 08:08 PM

Goat isn't necessary. If you hunt, you can shave a deer before you skin it and use that.

Magpie0001 · 05-17-2003, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
Goat isn't necessary. If you hunt, you can shave a deer before you skin it and use that.

Shave a deer, that sounds like fun, You couild shave dirty words or pictures, yes I am typing this from a high security mental institution.

04-28-2003, 07:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
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Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Hmmm, I'm a percussionist, so I've played on these instruments. But make one? Not to dash your hopes, but I think it'd be next to impossible to make a play-worthy afro-percussion instrument without any previous experience. Of course, I suppose you've gotta start somewhere if you're interested in that sort of thing! I would suggest searching around on http://www.everything2.com as they have many nodes concerning "make your own" type things. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll. Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

05-02-2003, 05:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
aus5tin Crazy Location: SWLA	Everything's cool. I just found out that one of my boys has a huge lathe and thanks to last fall's hurricane we've got lots of mayterial, mostly water oak. So we're gonna turn down some Djembe and Zarb (a wooden doumbek) shells! now I just need ti find raw goat skins... __________________ You cannot trick a bear... he knows a meal when he sees one.

04-29-2003, 07:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
britishboy3010 Upright	Im a percussionsit, and the best I can do is make drumsets. Maybe there is a shell you can buy for making them? (shell is wooden part)

05-02-2003, 08:08 PM	#5 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Goat isn't necessary. If you hunt, you can shave a deer before you skin it and use that.