[Elfsea] Drum Help Needed

Elizabeth Hawkwood rbnew5 at netscape.net
Thu May 19 12:37:53 PDT 2005


Last time I was at the Guitar Center in Arlington, they
told me they could do it without charging an arm and a leg.

//Elizabeth Haekwood

pcrandal at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> MidEast manufacturing used to do it for their drums, but locally there 
> are few and hard to reach people. Most that do it, want to sell you 
> their drums and charge for a rehead as much as their new drums.
> In Bryn Gwlad there was a group of SCA  members long ago that made a 
> jig for reheading. They might have posted instructions, I am not sure.
> A frame that held the hide tight. A jig that pressed the drum into the 
> hide, that could be tightened. Different hides produced different 
> tones, and also the pressure had to be just right. Almost to the point 
> of breaking the drum or the hide. Also the glue mattered. Has been a 
> long time since reading about it.
> There used to be a drum maker that came to Scarbourough, and he would 
> consider reheading drums. But it had to be out of season, as the fair 
> schedule was his living.
>  
> Crandall
>
> Sandra Barton <aimiliona at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>     I am in need of the name of someone who can repair a drum or knows
>     of someone who can, preferably local.  A friend bought one at a
>     flea market but it needs to have a new head. 
>      
>     Aimiliona
>

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