Got a good question earlier: Am I wearing out the drum heads - and that's why they have to be changed? No, there's a better chance that I am wearing out my HANDS before the drum head! The problem is that the heads are splitting and pulling away from the wood part of the drum. After we put THREE heads on my new drum, it turns out that the iron support about halfway down the drum was faulty. It cost about 25,000 GF to buy a new skin. OK, that's only about $4 - but it cost the goat a lot more! So, I have a new head (again) on my djembe and it's sitting in the sun for Day 2 of 3 - drying and stretching the skin to make it incredibly tight.
[The night the first one broke, the djembe was in my hotel room and it sounded like a gun shot went off. I sat straight up, looked around, and then noticed the drum head was split in two.]
I am waiting for the headlines to appear: "Mysterious drop in goat population," or perhaps, "Zoologists unable to explain near-extinction of African goat breeds."
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the djembe is working out so well!
Sue N.