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Thread #52941   Message #812544
Posted By: Dave Swan
27-Oct-02 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Skinning my wife's adufe
Subject: Skinning my wife's adufe
So, p.j. has an adufe which needs to be re-skinned. I can find all kinds of help in re-skinning bodhrans and djembes, but no luck with a SQUARE drum. Obviously a square frame won't take tension in the same way as a crucular drum. Any thoughts about estimating tension across the head? I'm using rawhide, as for a bodhran, and I think I'll use the same tension and moisture as well, but if anybody has another idea, I'd be happy to hear it.

Here's a photo, in case you haven't thought about an adufe recently.http://www.adufe.com/index.asp

Thanks,

Dave