Re: Djembe built with staves
Torsten Ziegler (tziegler@hermes.zkm.de)
Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:37:03 -0500
Thanks for all the reactions !
I built a djembe made with staves lately and my main problem was the
shape. It looks like two conical tubes (that s hat it is) but not like
a djembe ! And so I wondered if my technique is the right one.
I took about 50 staves and glued them together to two conical
tubes. This has been a little bit tricky because the staves tend to
fall into all directions but not the desired rounding. I managed it
gluing three staves together and then forming with this "triples" the
desired tube. Its good to have at least four hands to hold the staves
and tie them together with elastic band.
The shell now has an diameter of 10 inch and the height is 14 inch.
The material I used is a compound plate similar to a fine chipboard
(I dont know what it s called in english, the german abbrevation is MDF
and normally I use this wood for building speaker cabinets)
The sound is rather pingy, the bass is good but the open tones tend to
be very sharp (like the fibrewood djembe from afro percussion). Maybe
this comes from the very stiff wood or it because the inner side of the
shell is very smooth, not rough like a carved one.
Has anyone experiences with damping the inner shell near the head ?
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