16" double sided shamanic drum for sale. Buffalo one side, deer hide the other, using a willow hoop.
The drum handle is coated with wild rabbit fur, and a pheasant feather and white rabbit talisman.
Born 26 October 2024, following the Hunter Full Moon on the 17th, at 2.30pm.
A double sided drum tends to hold its tension slightly better, and the centre insulation tends to lend double sided drums to be more suitable that a single sided frame drum to using in a sweat lodge ceremony.
The tones of the drum are more varied due to the varying qualities of each animal skin, also offering a more powerful resonance and reverbertaion of sound. Gong like qualites also. This drum can be played holding the drum like a gong, or resting on one knee. This agian alters the tone making this drum an incredibly flexible sacred healing tool.
The beater handle is made with a willow handle, from a tree in my garden, and the head is made with suede/leather off cuts, tied with some of the deer skin. The head is filled with sheeps wool from Gloustershire.
Double sided, buffalo and deer hide
My shamanic drums are made from sustainably sourced hides and wooden hoops. All my drums come with a beater that usually has the same animal skin used in some way, to connect them. I always work in a sacred ceremonial way respecting all parts of the process.