Drum skinning, tuning, maintenance and repairs.
In 2008 I was funded by the arts council for professional development where I spent a month in the Gambia learning from master Djembe builders and learnt to skin and repair all my own djembes. These are my ongoing studies and results.
- Hand pull
- Smoothing inside for cleaner sound
- new drum
- workshop stock
- drums from someone who doesn’t know how to re-skin
- All needed re-skinning
- Massive drums
- finished
- Finished
- Finished
- Finished
- Finished
- Tourist drum with pro skin fitted.
- Tourist drum
- Soaked skin sewn together to hold in place while stringing back up.