As a unicyclists, I looked to you guys to make all my decisions.
Snake skin or red???
Chase
id go snakeskin cause it looks more authentic
Snake skin. Definitely.
Personally, I’d look elsewhere and find a real timber one. I have a nice hand-carved timber djembe with some sort of fur still on the sides of the skin…I like it.
i would probably go the snake skin myself.
I agree with Andrew; find a real timber one. Snakeskin may ‘look more authentic’, but I don’t think real djembes from South Africa used snakeskin…I think they just carved the wood and maybe dyed it…
The red. The snakeskin looks really douchy.
Djembes are West African in origin. While you’ll find a lot of them in South Africa, they are not traditional South African instruments.
The real wooden ones are nice.
As is this avatar for the serious percussionist.
Yours is a real djembe. The “fur” on the sides results after they stretch goat skin across the top, pull it tight with that band around the sides, then shave the hair off the top so you have a nice skin to play.
If your a real djembe player, eventually you have to get a new goat skin, stretch it and shave it (or have the guy at the djembe shop do it for you).
West Africa, especially Mali, is where they come from. It’s one length of tree trunk, hollowed and carved into that hourglass shape.
Ah, my mistake; West African, not South African.