There is one provider with cow hide that says his skins are 3mm. A good thickness?
Thomas Altmann wrote:Exactly for the sake of diversity I had initially chosen to leave caballoballo's and Mike's inputs uncommented. I can only speak for myself, my own musical taste and my personal opinion.
1/8" is 0.125", and this means 3.175 mm. What impresses me first of all, is that it must take a real man to force such a hide onto a drum of max. 9 inches! I have what I find two extreme thick skins on my bongo hembra and on my okónkolo. The okónkolo sounds great, it sings like a bell. But the bongo head is actually too thick. The sound is nice, though. Maybe a bit dry, like muffled. But some people may like especially that.
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