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Sending a New Drum off to it's New Home this Morning...

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Onebowonder:
Sometimes it feels like I'm sending one of my kids off to school in a distant state when I finish one of these and send it off to it's new home.  This one is special to me.  Half-way to kettle styled, but still a hand drum.  Her tone is so very sweet and the reverb changes the character of the sound a lot depending upon where on the face you strike.   It's made of ERC and American Holly with an Elk skin cover.

OneBow

Wolf Watcher:
OneBow:  Thanks for posting the pictures of your drum.  Its fantastic and I really wish I could have heard it's tone.  Would you mind if I asked a few questions about it's construction. How deep is the hoop and what is it's diameter?  I have been building drums for years and still learning.  I have some moose raw hide and plan to make my first big drum for powwows!  I also have a full elk raw hide for some smaller drums and would like to make something similar to your drum.  I know how you feel about sending a drum away when you have spent so many hours constructing it.  I also like the beater you made for it and know the feeling of success when different tones can be found on the various surfaces of the drum.  One day I hope to try to make an eskimo drum like the ones used in Barrow, Alaska.  HOW TO PLAY THE DRUM!  Hit the drum, repeat!  Joe

---GUTSHOT--->:
Wow that's a cool looking drum. Great job

Zuma:
A clear full moon night down in the haller, somewhere West Virginia. :)
Maybe a solstice moon rise at Owl Canyon west of Barstow CA.
Sweet
Zuma

bjrogg:
That really is absolutely beautiful. Most be kinda like seeing your daughter married off letting that go. I hope it goes to a good home and someone cares for it as much as you do just like I wished for my daughter.

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