Covering the skin with cloth/towel

[michi]

i think you mean this.

Yes. The website is www.drumdry.com. It hasn't been updated since 2007; it doesn't look like the product is actually available.

Cheers,

Michi.

[davidognomo]

doesn't anyone here uses to put a cloth up the gem, covering the sound hole, evoiding humidity entrance through that end of the drum? I mean, beside something to cover the top of the drum.

[callywally]

hello, what i use to keep the djembe volume sounds lower, as i can hear my neighbours break wind, is by wearing a cheap pair of woolley gloves which i find better than tea towel tricks. in the colder months out doors they work very well till im warmed up then i go bare back.

[Dugafola]

I have started covering the skin with cotten towel and tie it tight against the shell just below the rings when I store them or put them in the bag to take outside. I think that it will protect it from direct humidity, which is a lot where I live.

I know djembe hats are made for this but my djembe wont fit in the bag with a djembe hat. Also I saw Md. Diaby doing this, he was using a cloth.

Does any one also do the same, and should it be towel or cloth.

this doesn't surprise me about Mohammed Diaby. He sweats!!! and his hands sweat too! he killed a skin during a conference dance class in oakland a view years back.