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SKU: 6847540

SKU# 6847540

Two-tone ceramic hand drum used in classical Indian music. This drum is called a “baul” drum, otherwise known as the doogi drum. The first step in making the baul drum is to form the traditional earthenware pottery base of the drum. For the drum head, goatskin is purchased from the local weekly market, still covered with hair. It is processed with lime, the hair removed and is soaked in water for seven days. Then it is shaved with a chueri, a small scythe-like knife with small curved handles at each end. Shaving has to be done carefully as to make the skin thin enough but not to tear it. It is then cut into pieces, stretched on frames, and left to dry in the sun. After cutting to the correct size and shape, it is stretched over the base and attached with string made of buffalo skins. Finally, the gub is added. This is the small black disc on one side of the playing surface of the baul drum top, the sweet spot. This disc is made by beating iron dust with a haman-dista (mortar and pestle) and then pasted dry with a sil-nora (grindstone), after which it is strained through a fine cloth. It is then mixed with boiled rice until it is the consistency of a thick paste. This paste is worked over the goatskin on the drum with the index finger to the correct size and shape. It is smoothed over with a ‘stone’ of the same material, then left to dry in the sun. The process is repeated twice more and then shaped to a perfect circle with a khoopi, a type of knife.
  • Earthenware ceramic and leather
  • 8Dx7H inches
  • Made in India

UPC Code: 732919187441

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