What is a djembe made from?

Answer 1

original Djembes are made from a hollowed down log( or piece of wood) and have a goats skin top but modern day ones are made from fibre glass and have a plastic skin. also the have metal things on the side that you tighten and loosen to make to pitch go higher and lower but originals have thick string that you pull and push to tighten and loosen and make the pitch higher and lower. there is rarely any difference between them except the newer modern day djembe looks like this: and a original looks more like this:.