the herbert pig: ...

the herbert pig: ...

THE HERBERT PIG DRUM IS BORN!

Here is the finished drum the skin has stayed in place after tensioning on the vertical roping ...the cross weave is for fine tunning... The skin is still quite oily so it has a transparency to it.

The sound is beautiful deep round and woody even .....I could be describing a wine! I have to say its one of the best sounding drums I've made...

Just need to take some of the rough flecks of skin off the drum head

DRUM ALMOST COMPLETE

The skin is now in place....only just as it was quite small... it may have to be put on again if during the tensioning it slips from out of the rings. The sound as it is has a softness like a conga ....

PIG SKIN DRUM

I've been waiting for this day never sure it was really going to happen then the pig or the 'Herbert pig' was slaughtered on Monday the 8th of February and I received a piece of the skin this morning in the post ... unfortunately during the butchering a few holes were made, so I'm going to have to make a smaller drum.

Yes I have been asked to make a drum for Matthew Herbert as part of his project that follows a pig from birth to death for the forth coming album 'One Pig'.





These pictures are of the skin stretched out on an old bodhran frame, just to dry it out as i will be making a drum out of stave's in the same way of a barrel but a cone shape. the holes mean a smaller skin, I hope to make one that is at least 10 inch in diameter. The drum body will be of oak.