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    different frame drums, from our own atelier, shamane drums, irish Bodhran, oceandrum

    shaman drum

    Verschiedene Rahmentrommeln:

    The frame drum is a very original form of the drum, including the shaman's drums, but also the Irish bodhran or the oceandrum.
    The oldest type of drum construction are the frame drums. With a handle, like the bodhran or the shaman's drum, it was played for festivals and religious occasions in early cultures.
    The frame is usually made of wood and is relatively narrow at 5 to 8 cm. There are numerous variants in the covering, type of skin, tensioning systems or design of the handle.
    As a rule, goat parchment is used as fur. This can be a thin parchment like the gong drum, or, as we like to use for ton in ton frame drums, a parchment with hair.
    The handle for holding the drum can be made of stretched skin or wood. The oceandrum, a double-sided covered frame drum, has no handle. Small balls are incorporated between the skins, the sound of which mimics the sea.

    With or without a tuning system?

    Basically, natural parchments react to humidity. In a humid climate, the fur becomes soft and no longer holds its tension; in a hot, dry climate, the skin can be very tight. The latter is a minor problem and can be quickly corrected with a little water. However, a soft fur needs a source of heat such as a fire in order to stretch it again.
    Especially outdoors you often have different climates. If you want to play a drum mainly at home in closed rooms, you hardly need a tensioning system, since the drum remains largely in a constant climate. But if you travel a lot with the drum and want to play outdoors, a tensioning system can make sense. Extreme situations are in a sweat lodge or cool summer evenings after a hot day and the moisture rises from the meadow. If you don't have a fire to warm up the drum or don't want to wait that long, a tensioning system has proven itself.

    Ton in Ton - frame drum

    this shamanedrum is very origin with skin with hair, handle from wood, tuneable by screws

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    tit-rahmentrommel
    tit-rahmentrommel

    The frame is made from glued rings of plywood. On this frame the goat skin will be sewed. This drum is tuneable by small screws in the frame. The screws press the last ring, which is not glued, against the skin. So you can stretch or release the skin.
    For easy carrying, there's a handle on the back.
    The drums is streched with natural skin and only shaved on the drumming space. On the frame are still hair.
    Oversized skins on the borders can kept for order.

    The drum is covered with natural goat skins, which are only shaved on the drum surface. The hair remains on the edge of the drum.

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    Ton in Ton - Rahmentrommel 40 cm

    Ton in Ton - Rahmentrommel 44 cm

    Ton in Ton - Rahmentrommel 56 cm

    small frame drum

    a small frame drum for children and practice rhythm, from 4 years old

    kleine-rahmentrommel
    kleine-rahmentrommel

    This small frame drum is made like the gong drum. A light frame drum with a narrow frame and fine goat skin.

    Good for simple rhythm and early musical education for children.

    Or as a small, handy shaman's drum.

    With a felt mallet

    For children we also offer the children's drum or the small marching drum.

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    shamane drum

    a very raff shamane drum with handle, skin from sheep, with stick and bag

    schamanentrommel
    schamanentrommel
    schamanentrommel

    This drum comes from India, has a wooden frame and is covered with thick cow skin. The cross handle is made from plaited leather. It comes complete with a leather drumstick.
    The schamanen drum is available in the following diameter sizes: 30 cm, 36 cm, 41 cm, 46 cm, 51 cm and 56 cm.

    Also we can offer the shamane drum with coloured skin in the sizes 36 cm and 41 cm diameter

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    Schamanentrommel 46 cm

    Gong-drum

    very light and small frame drum. can played like a shamane drum or with hands. The thin skin makes a vibrating sound like a gong

    gongtrommel
    gongtrommel
    gongtrommel

    This frame drum is made from a wooden frame and a cross of leather, like the shamane drum, althought the Gong drum is covered with a thin goat skin. So it becomes a more light and vibrating sound like a gong.

    We have this drum in the sizes 46 or 56 cm diameter, with or without tuning system

    Every drum comes with a mallet and a bag

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    Gongtrommel

    Bodhran

    The bodhran is the traditional irish drum, wooden frame with goat skin, tuneable or not tuneable, with tipper.

    bodhran
    bodhran
    bodhran

    The Irish have kept up the tradition of the frame drum and even developed their own special technique of playing it - with a drumstick shaped like a bone, which they call the "tipper". The drum is covered with goat skin and can be played virtuosly ie: it "sings" in various tones.

    The bodhran is available in the following diameter sizes: 41 cm and 46 cm.
    The standard size is 46 cm. They come complete with drumstick and carrying bag.
    A tuneable bodhran is available in the size of 46 cm.

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    Oceandrum - Meerestrommel

    the oceandrum sound like the sea, very nice for relaxing and dreaming

    oceandrum
    oceandrum
    oceandrum

    A wooden drum covered on both sides with goat skin and filled with small metal balls - just enough so that when the drum is hold horizontally and slightly tilted from side to side it causes a sound reminiscent of the ocean. This can be very calming.
    Diameter 36 cm, 41 cm, 46 cm and 51 cm

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    Oceandrum

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    These nose-flutes are made from pine-wood and finished with linseed.

    How to play:
    You keep the nose-flute in front of your face, that the round hole is under your nose and the half-moon hole in front of your mouth.
    The nose blows in to the hole and the mouth is opened on the half-moon hole.
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    Clay flutes have been known for several thousand years. Usually they were just simple pipes with 1 to 3 tones. They had a protective character and were used as talismans. Newborns and unbaptized children were given a clay pipe to protect them from evil spirits. Ultimately, bird figures on the chimney or the bird-like handle on the lid of a soup tureen can also be traced back to a pipe that was supposed to protect the house or the food from evil influences. Often these pipes were shaped like animals, mostly as birds or roosters, but also as horses, bulls, owls and much more.

    The pipes were used as children's toys for a long time and were popular at festivals and fairs. Mostly bird calls were imitated. The clay flute did not develop as a real flute until the last century. An Italian potter formed a flute out of clay, the shape of which was held transversely and had a beak as a mouthpiece. This shape made the flute look a bit like a little duck, which in Italian means ocarina. This is how the clay flutes got their name, which then became internationally accepted.

    Today there are many forms and variants of the ocarina. The number of finger holes, the fingerings and the range can vary widely. There are single-part flutes, but also two- and three-part flutes. There are small ones with a high tone and large ones with a very deep tone. The ocarina became known and popular again in the 1990s through the computer game Zelda.
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    We manufacture our clay flutes entirely by hand from fine white ceramic mass. So with every flute you have a unique piece in your hands.
    After shaping and designing with glass and glaze raw materials, the flute is tuned chromatically with six finger holes and covers the range of an octave. The different sizes create flutes in all imaginable basic moods.

    The firing temperature of over 1100 degrees Celsius gives it enough strength to withstand the occasional blows caused by wearing it without losing quality. The dimensions of the flutes are around 25 mm for the smallest ones up to a flute of 100 mm diameter that is barely tangible.
    The flute always comes with a leather cord to hang around your neck, as well as instructions with fingering chart for the clay flute and further information about the manufacture of the clay flute and the history of the clay flute.

    Die Brenntemperatur von über 1100 Grad Celsius gibt ihr genügend Festigkeit, durch das Tragen verursachte gelegentliche Schläge wegzustecken, ohne an Qualität zu verlieren. Die Maße der Flöten liegen bei cirka 25 mm für die Kleinste bis hinauf zu einer gerade noch greifbaren Flöte von 100 mm Durchmesser.
    Zur Flöte gehört stets die Lederschnur zum Umhängen sowie eine Spielanleitung mit Grifftabelle und weiteren Informationen über Herstellung und Geschichte der Tonflöte.

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