Mar 27, 2009
You can’t hide a buffalo, can you?
Okay, you caught me smack dab in the middle of a really bad pun. It’s true, you just can’t hide a buffalo, but you can use a buffalo hide in drum making. In fact, we had four buffalo half hides to work with.
We started with the largest drum, a 30″ ceremonial drum. We needed rounds with enough overlap, and in very little time we knew exactly the sections we would use. The coloring in these two rounds have a yin-yang appearance, something we didn’t aim for but appreciated nonetheless. Our new ceremonial drum should be finished before the June 2009 Healing Drum Retreat, and we will include a discussion of yin-yang energy and healing of the planet.
We’re planning a “Ceremonial Drum Building Party”, a day for play, laughter, singing, and of course drumming with our own drums as we build this large two-sided drum. Once we have our time and location secured we’ll post an announcement.
This joyful party will be by donation, with the proceeds split between the Healing Drum Retreat Scholarship and Unity Works, providing education and guidance to youths.
If you are interested in attending this event and would like notification you can get updates through one of many options:
- join the Radiant Journey google group – notices of events will be posted for the Healing Drum Retreat and other events and activities
- sign up for the RSS feed and receive updates from the Healing Drum Retreat website
- contact Estee and Kaye through our contact form – please include your full name and the method of contact that you prefer (phone or email)
[...] by one the drums were completed, and there was still time to build the 9-sided buffalo drum. The hide was very wet, having soaked maybe a little longer than it needed. Nonetheless it [...]