Description

Gourd Drum Engineering advances the art of designing, making, and innovating percussion instruments using gourds. Fourteen percussion instruments are presented employing traditional gourd drum making techniques like cutting, rim leveling, and installing drumheads, as well as more advanced methods like machining custom parts, instrument electrification, and sound analysis. Featuring more than 200 color photos and line drawings, each percussion project gives detailed, step–by–step instructions to facilitate successful builds for both beginners and more advanced makers. Gourd Drum Engineering hopes to inspire those who have never made instruments before, or who have never worked with gourds before (or both) to go in new directions and create things that are some combination of unique, fun, interesting, practical, and of high quality.