Making & Use of Native American Indian Hoop Drums
The hide is stretched and laced onto the traditional bend wood pine frame at just the right tension to create an Indian hoop drum with optimum sound and still allow for residual stretching. Genuine rawhide goat skin is a natural "live" material with unique drumming qualities. It moves, expands and contracts with changing temperatures and can be repeatedly tightened with heat. It has an infinite variety of subtle veining and color tone and it's rich luster becomes more beautiful with age.
In the hands of a skilled Tarahumara, these Indian drums speak, delivering tones that are subtle and spiritual or pounding with excitement. Striking the drum in a variety of ways, with varying intensity of sound, Tarahumara shaman drums seem to touch one's inner being.
