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Wooden Shaker - Padauk

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:22 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with padauk (pronounced paw-duke').

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 2 1/2" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Yellowheart

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:22 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with yellowheart.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 2 7/8" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

djun djun - recycled maple flooring

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:03 -0500

$165.00
Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**

I have had this drum for far too long. Nothing wrong with it....just hasn't found its owner yet. So I am knocking down the price from $200.00 to $165.00!!!!!
Is this your drum??

Made from recycled hardwood flooring, this drum is called a djun djun ( doon doon ). It is basically a cylinder with a head on either end. The dimensions are 24" tall, and both heads are 11" across. This wood is beautiful. It has great color from light cream, to caramel, to dark brown. It also has some great figuring and some cool spalting.

It has 20 staves that we cut, glue, rout, file, sand sand sand, and varnish. The rings used to head the drum are 1/4" steel we roll and weld ourselves. The rope is high quality nylon core with very little stretch that is usually found on sailboats. We use goatskin for the head as it lasts long and stays in tune really well. I did not shave this drum all the way but I can before it is sent if you prefer.

All of our drums are great for beginner up through studio quality playing. A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum and please don't hesitate to e-mail or call with any other questions. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

18 inch ashiko from scavenged cedar

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:33:02 -0500

$140.00
A soundbite of our drums can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Made from cedar, this drum is really light and easy to carry/transport. Dimensions are 18" tall, and 8" across on the head.

It has 12 staves that we cut, glue, rout, file, sand sand sand, and varnish.
The rings used to head the drum are 1/4" steel we roll and weld ourselves.
The rope is high quality nylon core with very little stretch that is usually found on sailboats.
We use goatskin for the head as it lasts long and stays in tune really well.
Despite the smaller size this guy gives a wide range of tone from deep bass to high cracks on the edge.
All our drums are great for beginner up through studio quality playing. A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum and please don't hesitate to e-mail or call with any other questions. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

Wooden Shaker - Padauk

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:57 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with padauk (pronounced paw-duke').

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 2" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Padauk

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:45 -0500

Wooden Shaker - Padauk

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:09:44 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with padauk (pronounced paw-duke').

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 2 3/4" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Zebrawood

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:04:54 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with zebrawood.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 2 3/4" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Yellowheart

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:48:39 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with yellowheart.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 5/16" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Zebrawood

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:44:58 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with zebrawood.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 5/16" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Cocobola

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:45 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with cocobola.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 5/16" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Rosewood

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:37:25 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with rosewood.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 1/2" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Cocobola

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:06 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with cocobola.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 3/4" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Rosewood

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:31:01 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with rosewood.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 3 3/4" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Wooden Shaker - Cocobola

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:58 -0500

$15.00
Free Shipping in the States! Typically shakers will be shipped first-class mail via usps and will take 1 to 3 days.

The body of the shaker is made from redwood scraps that I obtained from a picnic table maker. The ends are capped with cocobola.

Inside I have poured metal BBs to create a very unique sound. By shaking side to side, top to bottom, or wrapping your hand around to mute it, you can get a wide range of sounds out of one shaker. The longer the shaker the deeper the tone.

Great for small gatherings of musicians to loud drum jams to rocking with your band on stage...very versatile.

The dimensions are 4 3/4" length and 8" circumference.

A soundbite of our shakers can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Music CD by Greenhouse

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:13:35 -0500

$5.00
Long ago in an alternate universe( better known as Fargo, ND), my now husband and I met when we both were invited to play some music with a mutual aquaintance. That started a long journey which culminated in the recording of this CD..... and then the prompt breakup of the band. We are all still really good friends and I found the love of my life, so it wasn't a complete bust. But in the years since this CD had been recorded, I have carried around about four boxes of them. So please; take advantage of free shipping and buy one, listen, enjoy, and know that we had the times of our lives making this music.

Although it is not on the CD, you can listen to a song at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=213620833
to get a feel of us.

Folk,rock,country,hippie jam,bluegrass.....none of us ever really figured out how to categorize ourselves.

Greenhouse
Blocking Out Your Sun
Recorded 2001

Artists>>>>

Jesse Stowell: vocals, guitar

Chad Lanning: bass, vocals, guitar

Charity Hopkins(me): cello, banjo, guitar, vocals

Connor Hopkins(my husband): All things drums and percussion, including his stomach on track 8

Steve Wallevand: trombone

Tracks>>>>

Strange...like a comet
To walk away
Made for Use
Tripping slowly
Downstream
All my days/rats
Can't stand easily
Pounktry
Black eye
Waiting for heaven
About time

Each CD comes in a shrinkwrapped jewel case. I have many, many, many of these but am only listing a couple at a time. If they sell I will keep relisting.

Reserved - Custom Order for Harmony13

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:53:33 -0500

$315.00
Two drums. If you are looking at this listing and you are not Harmony13....here's a little something to keep you occupied.

Dongly Things **by** Douglas Adams

Time to declare war, I think, on little dongly things. More of them turned up in the post this morning. I'd ordered a new optical disk drive from an American mail order company and, because I live in that strange and remote place called 'Foreign', and also because I travel like a pigeon, I was keen to know, when ordering it, if it had an international power supply.

An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name. Nowadays a lot of peripherals come with international power supplies as well - but not all. Which is why I asked.

'Yes, it does,' said Scott, the sales assistant.

'You're sure it has an international power supply?'

'Yes,' repeated Scott. 'It has an international power supply.'

'Absolutely sure?'

'Yes.'

This morning it arrived. The first thing I noticed was that it didn't have an international power supply. Instead it had a little dongly thing. I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. Most annoyingly, an awful lot of the little dongly things, including the one that arrived this morning, are little dongly things that run on 120VAC - American voltage, which means I can't use them here in Foreign (state code Fn), but I have to keep them in case I ever take the gizmo to which they fit - provided I know which gizmo it is they fit to - to the USA.

What, you may ask, the hell am I talking about?

The little dongly things I am concerned with (and they are by no means the only species of little dongly things with which the micro-electronics world is infested) are the external power adaptors which laptops and palmtops and external drives and cassette recorders and telephone answering machines and powered speakers and other incredibly necessary gizmos need to step down the mains AC supply from either 120 volts or 240 volts to 6 volts DC. Or 4.5 volts DC. Or 9 volts DC. Or 12 volts DC. At 500 milliamps. Or 300 milliamps. Or 1200 milliamps. They have positive tips and negative sleeves on their plugs, unless they are the type that has negative tips and positive sleeves. By the time you multiply all these different variables together you end up with a fairly major industry which exists, so far as I can tell, to fill my cupboards with little dongly things none of which I can ever positively identify without playing gizmo pelmanism. The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Now why is this? Well, there's one possible theory, which is that just as Xerox is really in the business of selling toner cartridges, Sony is really in the little dongly power-supply business.

Another possible reason is that it is sheer blinding idiocy. It couldn't possibly be that could it? I mean, could it? It's hard to imagine that some of the mightiest brains on the planet, fuelled by some of the finest pizza that money can buy, haven't at some point thought 'Wouldn't it be easier if we all just standardised on one type of DC power supply?' Now, I'm not an electrical engineer, so I may be asking for the impossible. Maybe it is a sine qua non of the way in which a given optical drive or CD Walkman works that it has to draw 600 milliamps rather than 500, or have its negative terminal on the tip rather than the sleeve and that it will either whine or fry itself if presented with anything faintly different. But I strongly suspect that if you stuck a hardware engineer in a locked room for a couple of days and taunted him with the smell of pepperoni, he'd probably be able to think of a way of making whatever gizmo (maybe even the new gizmo Pro, which I've heard such good things about) it is he's designing, work to a standard DC low-power supply.

In fact there already is a kind of rough standard, but it's rather an odd one. Not many people actually smoke in their cars these days, and the aperture in the dashboard which used to hold the cigar lighter is now more likely to be powering a mobile phone, CD player, fax machine or, according to a recent and highly improbable TV commercial, an instant coffee making gizmo. Because the socket originally had a different purpose it's the wrong size and in the wrong place for what we now want to do with it, so perhaps it's time to start adapting it for its new job.

The important thing this piece of serendipitous pre-adaptation has given us is a possible DC power standard. An arbitrary one, to be sure, but perhaps we should probably just be grateful that it was designed by a car mechanic in an afternoon and not a computer industry standards committee in a lifetime. Keep the voltage level, design a new, small, plug and you have a new standard.

The immediate advantage of adopting it would be that you would only need one DC power adaptor! Think of that! Well, not exactly one, you might need a dozen of them, but they would all be exactly the same! Just get a box of 'em! They'll just be a commodity item like, um, well, I was going to say light bulbs, but light bulbs come in all sorts of different wattages and fittings. The great thing about having a DC power standard is that it would be much better than light bulbs.

Apart from doing away with endless confusion and inconvenience, the arrival of a new standard would encourage all sorts of other new features to emerge. Power points in convenient places in cars. DC power points in homes and offices and, most importantly, DC power points in the arm rests of airplane seats...

I have to own up and say that, much as a love my PowerBook, which now does about 97.8% of what I used to use the lumbering old desktop dinosaurs for, I've given up trying to use it on planes. Yes, yes, I know that there are all sorts of power-user strategies you can use to extend your battery life - dimming modes, ram disks, processor-resting and so on - but the point is that I really can't be bothered. I'm perfectly capable of just reading the inflight magazine if I want to be irritated. However, if there was a DC power supply in my arm rest I would actually be able to do some work, or at least fiddle with stuff. I know that the airline companies will probably say 'Yes, but if we do that, our aeroplanes will fall out of the sky' but they always say that. I know that sometimes their planes do fall out of the sky but, and here's the point, not nearly as often as the airline companies say they will. I for one would be willing to risk it. In the great war against little dongly things no sacrifice, I think, is too great.

Build a Drum - 24 Inch Ashiko

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:19:53 -0500

$175.00
I am always making custom orders for people so why not do it here on Etsy as well?

Here is how it will work.
1. You purchase this listing for your 24" ashiko drum.

2. We will communicate about how you want your drum to look. Your options to choose from are:

a) Would you like cedar(reddish brown) or hemlock(light
yellowish) wood?
Both are softer woods and make for a great sounding
drum.
b) What color material you would like on the metal rings?
Options are wide open here! Pick your favorite color.
c) Would you like a bleached or furred head on the drum?
A bleached head will be thinner and have a brighter
tone. A furred head will sound earthier and will be
shaved smooth on the playing surface.

3. I build the drum to your specifications.

4. I send the drum to you and you play and play and play...

The pictures for this listing show examples of the options. The size of drum for this listing will be approximately 24" tall with a 10" head. Your drum will be built with the details we work out together. Once I know exactly what you would like, I ask for two weeks to build the drum and get it shipped out to you. I can even send you pictures along the way of your drum being built in a step by step fashion!

A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

Please contact me if you have any other questions about how this listing works. I will be happy to try and clarify anything.

A soundbite of our drums can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

18 inch ashiko from scavenged cedar and redwood

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:19:53 -0500

$140.00
A soundbite of our drums can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

Made from cedar and redwood, this drum is really light and easy to carry/transport. Dimensions are 18" tall, and 8" across on the head.

It has 12 staves that we cut, glue, rout, file, sand sand sand, and varnish.
The rings used to head the drum are 1/4" steel we roll and weld ourselves.
The rope is high quality nylon core with very little stretch that is usually found on sailboats.
We use goatskin for the head as it lasts long and stays in tune really well.
Despite the smaller size this guy gives a wide range of tone from deep bass to high cracks on the edge.
All our drums are great for beginner up through studio quality playing. A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum and please don't hesitate to e-mail or call with any other questions. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

standard size ashiko from scavenged cedar with tie dye head

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:44:13 -0500

$190.00
A soundbite of our drums can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

This ashiko is made cedar we scavenged. Dimensions are; 24" tall, 10" across on the head. It has 14 staves that we cut, glue, rout, file, sand sand sand, and varnish. The rings used to head the drum are 1/4" steel we roll and weld ourselves. The rope is high quality nylon core with very little stretch that is usually found on sailboats. We use goatskin for the head as it lasts long and stays in tune really well. This one just happens to be the allusive Pacific Northwest hippie goat (ha ha). This is our standard size ashiko and has the widest range of tone from deep bass to high end. All our drums are great for beginner up through studio quality playing. A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum and please don't hesitate to e-mail or call with any other questions. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

Build a Drum - 18 Inch Ashiko

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:44:12 -0500

$140.00
I am always making custom orders for people so why not do it here on Etsy as well?

Here is how it will work.
1. You purchase this listing for your 18" ashiko drum.

2. We will communicate about how you want your drum to look. Your options to choose from are:

a) Would you like cedar(reddish brown) or hemlock(light
yellowish) wood?
Both are softer woods and make for a great sounding
drum.
b) What color material you would like on the metal rings?
Options are wide open here! Pick your favorite color.
c) Would you like a bleached or furred head on the drum?
A bleached head will be thinner and have a brighter
tone. A furred head will sound earthier and will be
shaved smooth on the playing surface.

3. I build the drum to your specifications.

4. I send the drum to you and you play and play and play...

The pictures for this listing show examples of the options. The size of drum for this listing will be approximately 18" tall with an 8" head. Your drum will be built with the details we work out together. Once I know exactly what you would like, I ask for two weeks to build the drum and get it shipped out to you. I can even send you pictures along the way of your drum being built in a step by step fashion!

A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.

Please contact me if you have any other questions about how this listing works. I will be happy to try and clarify anything.

A soundbite of our drums can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

34 inch redwood ashiko drum with stand

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:43:48 -0500

$245.00
Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**Sale**

I have had this drum for far too long. Nothing structurally wrong with it but it has gotten a few scratches and dents along the way....you know....character! So I am knocking down the price from $275.00 to $245.00!!!!!
Is this your drum??

This is one of the larger drums we make. The drum is made from redwood and is pretty light. It stands 34" tall with a 13" head. The stand is made from flat and round steel. It is welded, painted black, and wrapped in soft leather. When the drum is in the stand it is 47" tall. The head is goat skin and is thick, giving the drum a wonderfully deep, mellow tone.

Furred Goat Skin Drum Head - 18 inches

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:16:53 -0400

$25.00
Have a broken drum you need to fix? How about a brand new drum? We got the skin!

High quality furred goat skin heads. All heads in stock are of medium thickness. You can request a certain color (brown, black, tan, or white) and we will do our best to accommodate.

The diameter across is 18 inches. Keep in mind when ordering a drum head that you will need a couple of inches overlap all the way around for your ring or lip of the drum.

Since it is a natural product we CANNOT guarantee that the head will not break or rip when being put on a drum. There are just too many factors involved that we have no control over such as the skin being pulled too tight, or rough edges where the skin makes contact with the drum. However,we do thoroughly check all the skins for weak spots and holes to ensure the best possible scenario of heading your drum.

****All sales of drum heads are final****

Furred Goat Skin Drum Head - 14 inches

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:50:36 -0400

$15.00
Have a broken drum you need to fix? How about a brand new drum? We got the skin!

High quality furred goat skin heads. All heads in stock are of medium thickness. You can request a certain color (brown, black, tan, or white) and we will do our best to accommodate.

The diameter across is 14 inches. Keep in mind when ordering a drum head that you will need a couple of inches overlap all the way around for your ring or lip of the drum.

Since it is a natural product we CANNOT guarantee that the head will not break or rip when being put on a drum. There are just too many factors involved that we have no control over such as the skin being pulled too tight, or rough edges where the skin makes contact with the drum. However,we do thoroughly check all the skins for weak spots and holes to ensure the best possible scenario of heading your drum.

****All sales of drum heads are final****

ceramic doumbek with goat skin head

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:14:22 -0400

$40.00
This is something new in the family of SlapHappy products. My friend Anne makes the ceramic shells and we head them up. The skin is a medium thickness goat. Has some bass and great high tones. Dimensions are; 9" high and 6" across on the head. Wonderful little drum to add to any collection. And no....you can never have enough drums!

Furred Goat Skin Drum Head - 16 inches

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:05:15 -0400

$20.00
Have a broken drum you need to fix? How about a brand new drum? We got the skin!

High quality furred goat skin heads. All heads in stock are of medium thickness. You can request a certain color (brown, black, tan, or white) and we will do our best to accommodate.

The diameter across is 16 inches. Keep in mind when ordering a drum head that you will need a couple of inches overlap all the way around for your ring or lip of the drum.

Since it is a natural product we CANNOT guarantee that the head will not break or rip when being put on a drum. There are just too many factors involved that we have no control over such as the skin being pulled too tight, or rough edges where the skin makes contact with the drum. However,we do thoroughly check all the skins for weak spots and holes to ensure the best possible scenario of heading your drum.

****All sales of drum heads are final****

Birdseye, Figured Maple Board

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:32:39 -0400

$250.00
A beautiful, one of a kind maple board. I know that the right person could use it for something breath-taking. It would be perfect for a fireplace mantle, furniture, or the body of a guitar(could easily be book matched), etc.....

The board is heavily figured with wonderful patches of birds eye in it. In the pictures there is no sort of varnish or oil on it....that's just the sunshine! It is roughly milled to where you can still see some saw marks in it, and some of the edge surface is raw with bark here and there. It was milled in Oregon about 10 years ago and has been drying naturally ever since.

Dimensions are:

Thickness....2"
Width........12" down to 10" down to 6" on the very end
length.......59" (almost 5 feet)

*****Due to the awkward size and the weight I am only guessing on the shipping price. If it is more, I ask that you work with me and pay the extra shipping. If it is less, I will refund the difference.*****

Redwood powwow ashiko drum

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:36:34 -0400

$425.00
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I have had this drum for far too long. Nothing structurally wrong with it but it has gotten a few scratches and dents along the way....you know....character! So I am knocking down the price from $500.00 to $425.00!!!!!
Is this your drum??

A soundbite of this drum played with mallets and then hands can be heard at:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=194269992

This is the largest type of drum we make. The wood is redwood so the overall weight of the drum is pretty light. The dimensions are; 24" tall without the stand (36" with), 25" across the top and 18" across the bottom. Our dog is there for size reference only and is a little confused. The staves are all bookmatched when cut and then glued, routed, filed, sanded, and varnished with a clear coat. We use 1/4" steel for the rings that we roll and weld ourselves. The steel stand is also cut welded and wrapped in leather by us. The head is goat skin. It is a medium thickness which gives great response for an extremely wide range of sound when played with the hands. Mallets (included) can also be used for a boomy heartbeat of a sound with variable tones depending on where you hit the head. This is a very loud bassy drum that can be heard very far off but can also be played with finesse for a warmer, more intimate sound. A tuning and care sheet goes out with every drum and please don't hesitate to e-mail or call with any other questions. We have been making drums about ten years, love what we do and just want to spread the music.