Ive gotta ask. Have you played one of the new Remo djembes?
I’ve got a 14-inch Remo djembe (fossil fantasy finish, unbelievably ugly, but It Does Stand Out), and I love it, but… It’s heavy. It’s really heavy. The new ones are something like 60-percent lighter than the old ones. They are shaped like a more traditional wooden djembe and don’t have as thick a bowl, so they are easier to grip with your knees when you play sitting down. I’ve also got stuff stuck to the bottom of MY drumhead, so I know you can deaden the ring, but this does affect the rest of the sound. I haven’t tuned one of the new ones yet, but I play lots of pretuned Remo doumbeks and stuff that don’t get tuned at all, and I tune my old-style Remo djembe once a year whether I need to or not, so I would be surprised if the synthetic cords are any more affected by the weather than the synthetic heads or the acousticon shells. I was carrying my djembe through a crowded doorway at Across the Street Bar one night and it swung loose and bopped a dancer in the head. It’s a really heav
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