----- Original Message -----
From: KENNETH HAMILTON
To: tabor_n_pipe@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [tabor_n_pipe] Tabor drum


"a traditional English tabor is a shallow
drum 8" or 9" diameter 4" deep"?

Steve! Shame on you! Does this include the 12" diameter, 12" deep traditional
English tabors illustrated all over the place (including the picture of Thomas
Slye)?


Stephen Rowley <steve@...> wrote:
Hi Reynold

Tabors very a great deal, a traditional English tabor is a shallow
drum 8" or 9" diameter 4" deep. A Basque style instrument is 10"
x 10". Medieval tabors can be much larger.

In C19th English tabors were made from cheeseboxes.

For any tabor, the process is simple.

1) make a former around which you will wrap the wood.

2) Make the drum shell using 3 or 4mm wood - Maple is good and
flexible. An alternative that many use is the thin ply 1.5mm and
wrap it around more times to build up shell thickness.

3) Glue the wood where it overlaps. Older style drums have nails
along the overlap edge.

4) once the shell is dry - use it as a former for the hoops. You
need 2 flesh hoops (that the skin laps onto) and two tension hoops
(that the ropes loop around) Often people make one big hoop and cut
it down into four hoops. Alternatively get strips. The hoops
usually have scarfe joints.

5) Lap the skins onto the hoops.

6) fit hoops, then tension up.

Good luck

Steve

At 13:40 21/03/2007, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am looking for details, information on making my own tabor drum.
>
>I need advise as to materials, diameter, depth and tensioning systems.
>
>I know very little about the technicalities of tabor drums, being new
>to this, but I will be making the drum with a friend who makes bodhrans.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Reynold
>
>
>
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