KevBo wrote:The heart is the customers logo or brand (she's a painter and uses this as her signature)
Okay. I didn´t recognize that it is a heart.
KevBo wrote:By hooklet do you mean the disk with my logo and serial number?
The heart. For me it looks like a hook - in a dictionary I found "hooklet" with the meaning "small hook".
I like your logo and I understand the sense of a serial number. When I started building cajones I did not even have a brand´s name. But musicians apparantly want to play instruments with logo (maybe they feel naked without
). I started thinking about the problem to keep my logo independent from the instrument – or seen from the other side: not to make the logo become part of the instrument itself. Today´s instruments (especially cajones) are often just background areas for the producers´ promotion.
KevBo wrote:Rest assured that the form of this drum was developed over tons of trial and error while attaining to achieve the best content. In form is function, and this shape is just that.
I am wondering about the synthetic heads, because I know that the big companies have to offer a minimum purchase in order to get Remo to make them in the needed shape. I know a German conga maker who copied the top area of a widely used model. This gives him the option to offer his instruments with synthetic heads as well. How are you adapting your djembés to the heads or contrary: the heads to your djembés (maybe by copying a LP djembé´s shape inside the range of 3-5 cm from the top edge?)
KevBo wrote:... where the professional is going to require a more refined sound and know his craft. He wants from the drum what is asked of it and wont enjoy playing a djembe that doesn't deliver.
I just asked because many fascinating playing skills were developed as kompensations of bad instruments.
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