33. Federmeister - Last Chance for a Dance

Winter was not so hard so I managed to build my new working place which could be used as a workshop for constructing my instruments either as rehearsal studio for my musical projects. I set up my musical rig and spent a week rehearsing my solo repertoire, composing and recording some new materials. Here's 'Last Chance for a Dance' from 'Renegade' performance.
Stay tuned for some new stuff in following weeks...

22. Resonant snare drum

For a long time I wondered to make my own snare drum, but It wasn't before I found a proper car rim to fit the purpose.

The rim needed some fine adjustment to get the exact diameter, then I got to work to drill all those holes. As the body of the snare is not plain it wasn't very easy to attach drum lugs, but my solution worked well.

At the end I also attached a pickup to the body of the drum so I can trigger stronger hits and get hybrid sound while playing.

21. DIY E-drums

 During past ten years I have worked quite a lot with different self made electronic pads in addition to basic The Stroj percussive arsenal which includes rough percussions like plastic oil drums, assorted cymbals, coils and metals, kick and coil drums. So I decided to make some prototypes of heavy duty electronic pads connected to drum module (recently I'm working with 2Box DrumIt Five). Car tires already proven their durability so I used them for pads. Their response and dynamic work well enough for our purpose as we tested them as oil drums the crew is usually playing.

I was quite lucky to find a small trampoline in a junkyard not far away from my house. Except the pink plastic, It seemed to be the perfect head for E - Kick.

And it was. Heavy duty, very responsive, hi-tech and with retro futuristic appeal I really like.

To hear them in action, stay tuned for my further projects....