Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:56 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote: >Richard, >You have posted a good how to on putting barrels back together. My >mischevious side insists that I tell you that in Colonial >Williamsburg, they will make you a nice clean new barrel in whatever >size you need for not a lot of money. Hmm... if there is true, I would need to investigate. Traditional Taiko are done using a single tree trunk and cost ~$10000!! A commercial wine barrel version runs for ~$3000. >Possibly the tannins in wine will make the wood sound better, just >like the submerged trees in Lake Michigan? are selling for a fortune >to instrument makers as the wood has a fabulous timbre. The main criteria is that it is relatively cheap and sound pretty good! >Good luck. > >Don >don.dory@gmail.com > >On 8/9/05, Richard <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > > We have been building our own Taiko drums for the last few weeks. We have > > done the taking apart and cleaning the wine barrel bits, and last weekend > > we finished making the biscuit joints and were gluing the staves back > > into > > drums. The whole set is at: > > http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3100 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)