Drums Frequently Asked Questions

How to Tune Drums

• AcousticDrums.com

  Tutorial on drum tuning.

• How to Tune Drums
• The Art of Tuning a Drum

  With sample tunings of famous drummers.

• Pearl: Education: How To

  How to set up and tune a drum set.

• Tuning Your Conga Drums

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Instrument Descriptions

• West African Percusion Dictionary
• Encylopedia of Percussion

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How to Build Drums

• Building a Goblet Drum
• Calculator for Stave Drum Construction

  A simple tool for drum builders.

• Hand Drum Construction
• Hand Drum Dimensions & Descriptions
• How To Make a Bodhran
• Steel Pan Tuning

  An extensive online book on how to build and tune a steel pan.

• Building a Steel Pan
• Making Your Own Taiko
• How to Make a Shekere
• Making an African-Peruvian Drum
• The Making of a Timpani Stick
• How to Make Drum Triggers
• Driftwood Marimba

  How to make one.

• Building a MIDI Kick Controller

  Includes schematics and program code.

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How to Repair & Maintain Drums

• Fixing Cracked Cymbals
• Cleaning Cymbals
• Re-skinning a Djembe
• Tips on Re-Skinning a Djembe
• Djembe Drum Repair Resource Guide

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Other Topics

• How to Buy a Drumset
• Recording Drums
• Problems & Solutions

  for classical percussion.

• The Anatomy of a Drumstick

  Marc Zoutendijk's overview of the physical and acoustical properties of wooden drumsticks.

• DJEMBE-L FAQ

  A compendium of everything you wanted to know about djembe & other West African instruments, supported by the subscribers of the Djembe-L elist.

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