[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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