Drum Workshop Registration

Materials Deposit:                                                   $80.00
Balance due, at workshop okay:                               $60.00
Or pay in full:                                                          $140.00

To schedule a drum making workshop, or rattle, dreamcatchers, or any of our lectures or Medicine Wheel or Medicine Shields workshops, please send an e-mail.

Octagonal Frame, 15" nominal dimension

Round Frame, 14" nominal dimension

Materials Deposit:                                                   $110.00
Balance due, at workshop okay:                               $60.00
Or pay in full:                                                          $170.00

"What a fantastic class, this is the second drum I've made and I love it love it love it! A terrific intro to working with rawhide and putting thought into your own creation, I'm glad I did it a second time, it was a lot easier because of some degree of familiarity. It's great experience for any crafter as well. Wonderful teacher!  Amazing results!" 
     L.M., Lake Worth, FL

     Long associated with Native America is what has come to be known as the pow-wow drum, a drum usually more than 30 inches across, which is played by eight or more people, depending on its size. Another type of drum growing in popularity in mainstream circles is the personal hand drum. These are round or octagonal frame drums, typically from nine to eighteen inches in diameter. They show up in drum circles, at sweat lodges, and can be used for healing. Ceremonialists will generally prefer to make their own sacred, the term sacred meaning anything used in ceremony or for healing, such as a drum, a fan, or a canunpa (cha-nuhn-pah, pipe.)

14" round (nominal)

15" octagon (nominal)

Typical lacing pattern.


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     "I have maintained a lifelong interest in these ways and have been active ceremonially for about 30 years. For the last 12 years I have helped others build their own drums. All of my efforts in learning from elders and other knowledgeable people and from participating in ceremony, have been to prepare me for one thing; to be the clearest Hollow Bone possible. In a workshop, all of that background and my willingness to "get out of the way," to be that Hollow Bone, come together to guide people as they have need. That guidance comes from Spirit.

     My point is this: Building a sacred tool like a drum is so much more than just wrapping rawhide around a wooden frame. My purpose is to help you connect to your drum, beginning right there in the workshop.

     I custom-build ALL of the frames I use in the workshops, round and octagonal. And I buy whole hides to cut the drum heads and lacing from. I find more and more people are going to the drum kits, but I cannot. Creating a hand-drum takes effort. But, just like your Earth walk, when done well there is no greater reward than the outcome itself."

Different sizes on request.

April 7, 2012
 Loxahatchee, FL
3:15pm to 6pm approx
Rev. Pearl Rauberts, at 561-333-3372 or rauberts@bellsouth.net or http://rauberts.com materials deadline: March 28
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