[Santos]

Goat skin/hides Sydney need some goatskins, maybe there are some hunters here

[joel]

can get you some swine and brumby ones??

[rick1970]

Santos wrote:

Goat skin/hides Sydney need some goatskins, maybe there are some hunters here

Yes lots here, variety of colours, but with rest of goat still attached. You may have to do the skinning yourself tho, would end up in a pretty butchered state if left to me and my knife skills....

[Santos]

joel wrote:

can get you some swine and brumby ones??

Brumby would work

[joel]

how much you need and by when??

[Santos]

no rush i got some goatskin coming from the UK real cheap, just need 20 inch circle for now if you have brumby handy, probably need more in the future if it all works out.

[joel]

ive just been cleaned out of my skins, will be getting some more brumby in a fortnight.

[Matthew]

What are they for?

[Santos]

drum skins

[joel]

huh, thats what the fella used all the skins i just had for.

[Matthew]

Drum skins is the last thing I would have guessed.

[Santos]

Matthew wrote:

Drum skins is the last thing I would have guessed.

With synthetics and plastic drums heads being around i could understand that. Synthetics are good as they are generally atmospherically stable so you tune them once in forever. Traditional hides expand and contract with moisture and temperature, usually its best to leave them in the sun or hit them with a hairdryer rather than constantly retightening them until splitting.

Having said that i have yet to see a conga that sounded good with synthetic skins. Also Atabaques (a conga variant common in Caopeira circles) looks more aestheically pleasing if the fur is still on the edges

[Matthew]

When you said 20" diameter, first thought was for a raw-hide shield facing.

Would have got to drums sooner or later.