Homemade packing tape drum - Child's Play Music
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2011
- childsplaymusic.com.au/ & / childsplaymusicperth . A very easy way to make a drum that sounds quite good. Using ordinary packing tape for the drum skin, you can make this drum in around ten minutes. This project is suitable for young children, and a 4 year old could make one with a little assistance from an adult.
For the drum shell you can use anything that is round, fairly rigid, and about 150mm or larger in diameter. A coffee can or a baby formula can works well, but for larger drums paint cans, PVC pipe, PVC containers, heavy cardboard tube (the stuff sold in hardware stores for forming concrete footings) all work well. You can even use an old car tyre to make a Taiko-style drum. Don't use a light plastic bucket - it must be fairly strong.
I would suggest making a number of these drums in different sizes so you have a good variety of drum sounds. The smaller drums (up to around 250mm) can be suspended on a loop of rope so children can play them while standing - instant marching band!
The drum skin will last a week or two of playing, less if you play hard (it doesn't sound any better if you whack it, so just go easy and it will hold up fine). Ordinary drumsticks are fine, as are chopsticks or hardwood dowel with the ends rounded off. You can also play it by hand.
Have fun!
Alec Duncan (B. Soc. Sci. Children Studies)
Child's Play Music
Thanks for explaining this project so thoroughly. I'm an patient in a nursing home who is starting to make homemade musical instruments out of recyclables with my occupational therapist as part of my therapies and will be keeping some of my instruments I mske and giving others to other patients so they can have some musical fun. These drums are probably going to be the second project I take on, thank you in advance for what will hopefully be a lot of fun.
This man is helping me with my VIA project and I'm living for it
Even tho this was made 8 years ago this guy is a legend he just helped me with a science project
My daughter has to do a drum for a school project, I love this more than the balloon one. Thank you for making this video.
Your video saved our day in science project where my child was asked to create a musical instrument and we followed your instructions. Thank u so much
This is amazing, was looking for a cheap alternative to a real drum/drumkit. thanks for this tutorial it's awesome :D and it sounds alright too.
I made the Drum my self and it sounds really good keep it up
Super quick and easy to make, I'm using it for a baby class I teach. Thanks for posting!
So the profacy has came true
Thank you for this awesome tutorial!! It has helped me so much with my music project😁. The drum sounds amazing and it is super easy to make.
Your method seems to be very easy. I'm a pre-school teacher, teacher in a project-based school. Shall try out this method with my 2 to 3 year olds for their coming exhibition on this May.
I love ur idea very much!!
Well, If the drum is open at the bottom it will be more resonant and louder, with a longer sustain. It will still work if you don't cut the bottom out, but it definitely sounds better if it's open. Alternatively, if you've got a hole-saw you can cut a large-ish hole in the side of the drum - say 1 to 2 inches in diameter. That will help, because what you are trying to do is stop the air that is trapped inside a closed drum from acting like a spring that damps the skin's vibrations.
You would be surprised how hard you can hit this without it breaking. It's certainly not as durable as real drum skins, but mainly because over time it stretches rather than breaks. I use drumsticks made out of 12mm dowel (1/2 inch) and I can hit it just as hard as I hit my drums with Remo skins without it breaking. I don't demonstrate that in the video only because it would have caused the audio track to clip and distort really unpleasantly.
I started a band with 5 people today. The names of the people I started the band was Max(me),Madilyn,Audrey,Breighton,Brooklyn. Madilyn and Audrey left the birthday party. So we weren't able to fake record music
Thanks a lot Alex... Very helpful... You helped in my physics project
12 years later, and thus tutorial still is helpful
I love it.
Thank You So Much It sounds so good
That is a good drum ever .