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Feb 1, 2008 5:25 pm
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The head of my drum burst and I ma preparing to re-skin it. In trying to figure out how to reduce the insane number of verticals that this drum has I actually...
Hi. A few months ago I was reading the comments on a Youtube Djembe post and came across a very angry black man who lambasted a high school (white) kid for...
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hi ken the only way i would reduce the number of verticals would be to re-loop the rings. as for odd or even, i have thought about it but not sure there is...
... Take the drum apart and re do the ring ropes.Use 2 finger distance between the loops. On a average size drum you should get about 24 loops,but it doesn't...
You can use any number you want, odd or even, as long as you put the same number on both the top and bottom ring. I find an average of about 27 on traditional...
Hey Ken As I figure it, each loop has 2 verticals coming from it, as the rope goes up and through the loop and then down the other side so there is always an...
Thanks guys, for the quick responses. Unfortunately the POSTING didn't turn up until after the work had been done. I just went ahead and skipped that 41st loop...
Hi, Ken and the others In the past, I found out, that one can use a very simple formula ( ok , lets say reminder instead :-) ), for any djembe regardless of...
For years I used 20 - 24 loops, and scoffed at the drums that I saw with 35 - 50, thinking that they were a waste of rope, and that there was no functional...
I think this is an interesting question. First,though, I would say that no matter what video you watch on youtube, there are almost always cranky comments....
There have been a lot of feelings and much controversy around this. Everyone who has been on this list for enough years knows all about that. I feel ya. I feel...
Gana drum! You guessed it. I didn't know that they were ALL like that though. This thing is so crappy. The rope broke the first time that I tried to really...
I asked Famoudou Konate how he feels about us in Europe, wanting to learn from him a tradition that's not truly ours. He has the position that he wants to...
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Feb 2, 2008 6:56 pm
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... Sounds as if you have a Ghana made djembe, one of those with very attractive weaving that creates the top loops but (probably) thin and/or stretchy rope...
Hi Ken, you can half the number of verticals by threading through 2 lark's head loops at a time both above and below. The Ghanean makers often don't bother to...
hi all tom puts out a good point, i go over except sometimes on a soft wood drum i will go under. going under is certainly easier to undo, but i like the...
one of the primary, if not the primary, functions of this music/dance in mandenka culture is as social glue. since it brings people together in a setting of...
I prefer going under... I guess cause that's the way I was taught originally... Kestrel tom harris <tom.harris@...> wrote: Now I'll throw out a question to...
... Don't re-do the rings, just skip every other loop when threading. Some djembes are just built like that, the rings are completely full of loops so you see...
Hi everyone i want to learn more about the yembela rhythm, can anyone help? what i know is (though this information may be wrong) yembela is a rain song from...
I always go over as it holds better and is not a problem to undo when reheading, and I go to the left with diamonds. No particular reason for going. Ed ...
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... No doubt there is a hierarchy of techniques, but I doubt the vitriolic criticism levied at westerners who make an honest attempt at playing a rather...
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I've experienced this with some Ghana shells and have overlapped the loops to keep the pressure consistant. For the look of drum you will want to overlap the...
