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Kevin 3 days ago
Understandable 👍🏽
So the outside is from alligator 🐊, is the inside from cow? Looks like it, given that comparative thickness. And looks beautiful, too.
Alligator and calfskin to be precise. Inside is soft and supple. The gator part is surprisingly thin. It arrived completely out of flesh. Just skin. But the feeling is great. It's more supple and bendable than you'd think.
My friend had a percussion drum made with kangaroo skin, and it sounded very unique to my ear, not like cowhide or goat skin. My newest drum creation has a "skin" grown from reishi mushroom. It lacks the tensile durability of animal hide, so it wasn't really possible for me to pull it as tight over the drum head, but it still sounds cool to have a working mushroom drum!