I got a broken toy souvenir and made an instrument

I got a new task ... it's not a task but a challenge, I actually got a broken toy that I should fix and it looks like an instrument , and it’s a drum with two skins to play with the bass skin being broken and I have to change it

It all started early in the morning while I was in town and watching a seagull on a dumpster

I was interested in how he walked on that rainy day and fluttered from one container to another so fluttery

After a while a man called me and asked if I could look at his drum because his skin was cracked

to be looked at and possibly repaired and perhaps repurposed

to be a little different
this is just a coating that gives a deep sound

and here the skin cracked on impact

this black is some tar something soft and slightly sticky and dripped on the lower skin as well

this is what your lower skin looks like

the twine with which the skin is tightened is so damaged that the only way unfortunately is cutting for a change

after cutting I freed the skins from the wood , thin upper

this is the thicker bottom broken

a little look at what a tree looks like

so I set the skin to see how it breathed

I have to put this broken one in the water to soak it because it is dry and hard like ... censorship

while she was getting wet and wet I played a bit with the selfie on the reflection of water and skin

he didn't succeed there, the skin has to be soaked to become soft because there are hoops in it that tighten the skin and they are important to me

while getting wet I take wood and a little to go process to fix it

the edges of the mouth are rough and rather sharp

it is not good it can damage the skin and break it

I took the backing and sandpaper and set out to fix it a bit to put it in order

this way it looks better softer, smoother and prettier

roughly better looking and skin with for that time soaked and to see how it looks

I took the skin out of the water and disassembled inside instead of metal is a strip of bamboo that fell apart under the load of soaking the skin

this is an inner ring connected by a thread to hold like a grandmother’s wobbly tooth working but gently

inside everything was cracked from the ring holder

a little artistic staff angry when there is chaos

this is the reason

the damage is quite severe and may be saved

I tried to glue all these cracks and fix them with a special adhesive tape, but without success

I had to make a new way of tightening the hoop that is more dangerous to break while he wet the skin

hshaha the skin looks like from the grill well i made it great very very cute

in the middle instead of that tar I placed another skin to serve as a bass resonance, it is this gentle circle in these lines

of the 10 meters of twine, two meters remained and I tangled it

This is short because I couldn't manage to take more photos to work around the skin because it dried quickly and other work that needed to be improvised and made of quality from a semi-instrument - a souvenir toy, make an instrument

I greet everyone at HIVE with my little work with a few photos and a few words and the sound is interesting while the skin was wet.
When I have the opportunity to record it, I wish you a pleasant day until then.
Non-breaking toys can also be instruments .

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