The secret for a drum to sound bright and crisp is to tension its membrane somehow.
How To Make Your Drum Sound As Good As New
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Learn How To Tune Your Drum
How To Tune Your Drum If your drums are a year old or more, then the sound they make will have changed since the day you bought them. This is entirely normal and has nothing to do with the quality of your drum. The natural skin head reacts to the moisture content of...
How Not To Name Your Business
Do you know what an African drum and a Korean city have in common?
Drumsticks Or No Drumsticks?
Drum Sticks Or No Drum Sticks? One of the most frequently debated questions, amongst staff at schools and preschools, about drums is : "Will we be hands-only, or will we use drumsticks?" When I travel around visiting schools with my drums, this drumsticks debate often...
African Djembes : The Reason I Do Not Import them
It’s a question of principle.
There is a certain irony surrounding African djembés in the West. The guilty silence by drum merchants concerning the non sustainable harvest of large trees and the raising of goats for skins in West Africa, flies in the face of the self image of djembé buyers.
We've been producing drums in Dunedin for over 20 years. Here David is tuning up a wooden Dunumba.
2 years ago
Drums in the making! This delivery of PVC tubing is ready to be transformed into tambourines and children drums. Once measured, these tunes are cut into 240 individual drum shells.
2 years ago
Kate finds my overalls in various opshops. So I go under a range of first names, depending on the laundry cycles...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
If you're looking for drums, you know where to find us!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
St Clair surf school.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
You need the wetsuit down here, the water's is a bit nippy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Good surf though, and right in the city : bus every 20 min, directly to the surf! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
Children drums come in a full set from a lower to a high pitch sound. Yes, ideally you need the 3! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
Another controversy. Hard to not step on someone else's toes these days. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
Dunedin Harbour Mouth Molars from Regan Gentry. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Controversy and public art usually go hand-in-hand. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago
Another gorgeous day in Dunedin! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2 years ago