My instrument is called, "The Funny
Drum." My Mom helped me make it. After deciding what kind
of drum I was going to make, Mom and I went to Wal-Mart to
buy the items I needed. The items my Mom and I bought at
Wal-Mart were some red, white, and blue paint, two dowel
rods and two wooden balls that fit the dowel for the drum
sticks and a small bungee cord. Then I went out into our
garage and found a chamois. I went next door to my Uncle Mark's
house and asked him for a coffee can, he drinks a lot of
coffee. I painted my coffee can one night,
then let it dry and repainted it again the next night.
After it dried my Mom helped me stretch the chamois around
the can and stretch the bungee cord around it. Then I took
the scissors and trimmed the extra chamois. Then my Mom
used her hot glue gun to tack the extra chamois up over the
bungee cord so it didn't show. I strike the drum with the drum sticks
and it has a low, high pitch with a loud, soft dynamics.
The tiimbre reminds me of a Indian drum.
Z ž