Making Drums
Product Description
Find out how to build an array of fantastic drums from professionals in the field using traditional and modern techniques. This is a teaching book; the many, many coor pictures have been chosen to represent drums from around the world and through history, and to show you how to make them.
You can apply the information on drumhead selection, attachment, and tuning to drums made with many materials, such as gourds, wood, metal, and clay. They begin with the traditional folk drum from Ireland called the bodhran as an excellent introduction into drum making.
The chapter titles are:
- Drum Morphology [form and structure]
- A Little Science
- Rawhide Drumheads
- Attaching Drumheads
- The Mail Weave
- Frame Drujms
- Staved Drums
- Carved Drums
- Clay Drums