Native American Indian drums
Indian drums of the Tarahumara Indians are fashioned by hand. These Indian drums are said to be made by North Americas most primitive people, inhabiting caves and cliff dwellings.
Tarahumara Indian drums are primitive Native American drums of goat skin which has unique stretching and sound qualities. The rawhide Indian drums skins are prepared according to traditional methods that are the closely guarded secrets of the drums makers.
The drums hide is stretched and laced onto the traditional bend wood pine frame. The tension creates Indian drums with optimum sound. Genuine rawhide goat skin is a natural "live" material with unique drumming qualities. Natural rawhide Indian drums expand and contract with changing temperatures and can be repeatedly tightened with heat. Rawhide Indian drums have an infinite variety of subtle veining and color tone and their rich luster becomes more beautiful with age. Indian drums can be heard drifting throughout mountain villages for miles.
In the hands of a Tarahumara, these Indian drums speak. They deliver tones that are subtle and spiritual or pounding with excitement by striking the drum in a varieey of ways with varying intensity of sound. Tarahumara Indian drums seem to touch one's inner being. During the pounding enthusiasm of their ceremonies with perhaps 100 drummers, the percussion of hand drums fills the air and beats within the chests of surrounding participants as hearts adjust their rhythm to the drums.
Interested in primitive, Native made natural hide Indian drums? You would appreciate the rich culture of the Native American Indian drums of the Tarahumara people.
