Ritual - Drum ø 30 - 55 cm - Calf

Sweat lodge drum, incl. clapper

These drums are made solely of skin (animal kingdom) and wood (plant kingdom). The 16 skin cords are each divided into four segments on the back and bound with leather to create an easy-to-grip handle. Incl. wooden mallet with red leather head and lined with sheep's wool.

The round drum symbolizes the cosmos and the circle.

The sweat lodge is the traditional Indian sauna. This cleansing ritual involves singing, drumming and praying. The heat is generated by red-hot stones that are taken from the fire in front of the hut and placed in a hole in the hut. There they are doused with water and blessed. This creates a moist heat that is much hotter than a sauna. In order for a drum to withstand the moist heat for up to two hours, it must be constructed in a special way.
A special tensioning process and the thick skins lead to a particularly tight tension. In contrast to conventional frame drums, this high tension produces a rather high-pitched, powerful and penetrating sound that lasts for a long time, even in rainy weather. However, this cannot hide the fact that all drums, like living creatures, have a life of their own, which can change depending on the weather and emotional fluctuations. In a well-air-conditioned room, however, the drums always return to their original tension. The particularly thick cowhides are traditionally split to make them suitable for the drum skin. This creates the outer skin, the grain skin, which is very smooth, and the rougher inner skin, the split skin. Only high-quality grain skin of varying thickness is used.

Calf skin, beech wood frame, incl. mallet

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