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The Esalen Arts Center offers a wide variety of musical instrument making classes including guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, bouzouki, drum, ethnic instruments, flutes, and other wind instruments. Each instrument reflects the care and attention to detail of a fine hand-crafted work of art. Its sound will be filled with the spirit of you, the craftsperson. |
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| Jayson and Terry Craven with drums made in the Ashiko Drum Making class. The ashiko drum is a dynamic, acoustically rich drum from Africa. Its voice is deep and earthy while embodying a tonal range that is versatile and expressive. |
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| Jayson gluing the drum staves together. These drums are made from mahogany and poplar woods. |
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| The finished clay drum. |
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| Jayson strings a giant clay drum using the Mali knot method from West Africa. |
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| These shakeres were made by students by weaving glass beads around gourds grown at Esalen. |
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| A conga drum. |
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| A student with Michael Cane in the Bamboo Flute Making class. |
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| A guiro, descendant of an African instrument primarily played in the Caribbean, which was crafted from a gourd grown on the Esalen farm and carved with a wood chisel. |
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| A gourd drum. |
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| A student in drum making class strings and tightens his drum head. |
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Ayres paints the ashiko shell he is constructing in the drum making workshop. |
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Students applying verithane after drums have been sanded. |
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