For the entire 10 plus minutes, I was glued to the YouTube video
clip that showed the making of a ‘Djembe’ in an African village. Well, it was
not the meinl rama sita deluxe djembe at guitar centerbut rather a
primitive one without any carvings on the body of the “Djembe’. The former Djembe
shown below is intricately engraved with the characters from the Hindu epic
Ramayan. I could not understand how the African natives learnt about Ramayan
and what the relation between Ramayan and an African drum is!
From time immemorial, African
percussion music instruments captured the fascination of millions of musicians.
The hundreds of variations of drums today must have been inspired by the
African drums such as dunun, Djembe etc.
Oh yes, coming back to the making
of Djembe, it was made of really solid mahogany wood.
The way the maker carried
it with his hands indicated its heaviness. I enjoyed the way it was tuned.
Do you know that the Djembes are quickly
sold out as soon as they reach the online music stores?
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