Top lenke Mali djembe shell (large)
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Attention : ça ne se voit pas sur la photo mais la peau est à changer.
Sold with its corresponding custom-made metal hoops.
Dimensions & materials
- Skin diameter : 32,5 cm
- Height : 58,5 cm
- Weight : 9,05 kg
- Kind of wood : Lengue (linke) (Afzelia africana)
A product of African craftsmen (Mali)
Top Mali djembe shell - Lenke large professional djembe
A traditionally high quality instrument shaped with precision tools, this Top Mali Djembe shell is the fruit of a meeting between ancestral skills and technically, precise, modern tools.
Dried in a vacuum for at least 4 years, this shell hollowed out, re-balanced and precisely sanded on a wood lathe. It weighs in general 2 kg less than a Classic Mali Djembe.
Preemptively re-balanced using a specially adapted wood lathe, it is polished through a series of sandings using progressively finer sandpapers. Any tiny micro-fractures are chamfered and glued with extraordinary precision.
It is finally coated with a blend of beeswax and terpin, protecting it from wood-eating insects.
For Guinean blacksmiths, lenke (lengue) is sacred, considered the best wood for the fabrication of the djembe drum.
