Horse Skins for Drums & Crafts

Skin Material: Horse rawhide

Description: Each horse skin is pre-cut and ready to be soaked & mounted on a bongo or other drum.

Thickness of Horse Skins:

Thin: .4 to .8 mm (Most horse hides yield more thin skins than medium or thick skins; thin skins are the easiest to obtain)

Medium: .9 - 1.4 mm (Medium horse skins are less common and harder to obtain than thin skins)

Thick: 1.5 to 2 mm (Thick horse skins are rare and the hardest to obtain)

• Rule of thumb: The thinner the skin, the brighter the timbre (sound quality) and the more airier sounding

• Rule of thumb: The thicker the skin, the warmer the timbre (sound quality) and the more robust sounding

Thin skins are generally recommend for: Doumbeks and darbukas, 6.75" and smaller bongo shells, frame drums, small to medium size djembes; small & large heads for small (Okonkolo) Bata; small head for medium (Itotele) and large (Iya) Batas

Medium skin are generally recommended for: 6.75" bongo shells (if you want a more robust, woodier sound); 7" and larger bongo shells, Jr congas, djembes, large head on for small (Okonkolo) Bata (gives a more robust sound than a thin skin); small & large heads for medium (Itotele) Bata; small & large heads for large (Iya) Bata

Thick Skins are generally recommended for: Congas, Tamboras; large head on large (Iya) Bata