Re: Most versatile Djembe,conga or doumbek??

Moosebumps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes, that's very true.  I wouldn't say "awful", but they don't really sound
> like doumbeks.  I used to live in a place with air conditioning, and that
> helps a whole lot.  The drum sounds totally different, a lot crisper and
> tighter.  Now that I don't have air conditioning, I use mostly
> synthetic-headed drums, and that works for me.  What people usually do is
> get a heating pad, and you just warm the drum up on that.  I don't have the
> time now to warm a drum up for 5 minutes every time I play though.  : )

> In general, for the doumbek, natural skin heads are pretty sensitive... the
> drum sounds totally different from day to day, depending on the weather.

> I haven't found the fishskin headed drums to necessarily have "more" bass
> than other doumbeks, but I would say it is "tighter".  it is more focused,
> and quite pleasant.

I agree. I've got a fish skin Doumbek and like all natural skins
is rather weather sensitive. But even though I don't play mine
much, I've never noticed it being "awful". It does change quite
a bit with weather though (this is Ohio). But since I usually keep
it inside I've never seen it get way out of control (Like say
a djembe outside). And that's goo since I don't think there is
any reasonable way to change the head tension to tune it.

And I also agree that I don't think the bass is any 
louder than non-fish doubeks. It is a nice sounding 
drum though.

Benj

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