This is the time to make any repairs to your drum, so please consult - What to look for in a Djembe - and decide if you need to:
- Repair the djembe drum shell
- Rework the wood playing edge
- Replace worn or low quality rope
- Resize the rings to a better fit
Know if your djembe drum needs these kind of repairs the new head result will be limited by the drums current flaws!
To prepare and remove the existing goat skin head:
- Remove all tuning diamonds - Find the end of the rope that has been crossing the vertical ropes and back all that out till you just have vertical rope
- Find an untie the knot that ends your verticals
- Back between 1/4 and 1/3 of your vertical rope out of the rope cradles at top and bottom (it helps to go from both rope ends a little each way)
- Now work the slack into the vertical rope you have left threaded (maybe 2inches in each rope) enough so the whole head rings can rise just above the level of playing surface
- You should now be able to slide the hide ring with the old head out from under the top rope ring, through the 1/3 gap you left in the vertical ropes.
- You are now ready to use my Heading Instructions!
