The Tahora Diaries - Drum Making

I love hitting things and making things that you can hit.
It's called percussion and you can make percussion out of almost anything.
STOMP does. http://www.stomponline.com/

A friend and colleague who works in a paper converting mill [that's where they make toilet paper] saved me some of the cardboard cores from the large rolls of paper they use to convert to toilet paper.
They look like this.
The cool dude is my son Stuart.






We stretched Oxford Nylon across the cores and stapled it into place.











The drums were then decorated in a variety of ways.











Then they were hit by hand or with beaters.

It's almost that simple.

They were put to good use drumming the New Year in around the bonfire at Tahora.