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Making an Atabaque (Capoeira Drum) – part 2, steam bending

Monday, February 14th, 2011

We are well please with the stand, so here we go with the drum itself… To begin with I spent a good long time umming and arring about the dimensions I wanted, and researching how the different proportions would likely affect the sound. I ended up designing it to be