For years I've been on the road touring with the Flea Bitten Dawgs. One of the items I've had on my Merchandise table has been handmade percussion instruments. I've had a passion for hand drum's and shaker ever since I was a young boy, first playing them, and now making them! I start with wood pieces I collect from Hoffman Luthier or from wood I've found in my wood pile of firewood, from wood I'll
collect on the road from campfires, friends with wood stashes, and from the forests. I air dry and saw to the sizes I use and then try to put together wood that looks nice, as well as sounds good together. If you have been camping with me or have been to a festival I played chances are I have made a shaker or a kazoo from wood collected while I was there. My drums are handmade. You will find the occasional darker woods being used but most are made from maple. I add a shaker/snare to many of the drums. Some are like small bongos and some sound like wood blocks. They sound like a small cajon but play well with acoustic instruments. My drums are not frowned upon around a campfire! I call the kazoo's I make "Kazoo's Shakers". It is one of my brainchild's, like many of my instruments, and I'm the only place to get them. They are not as brash as the toy plastic kazoo's and with a little practice, will give you way more color to the tone. If you love handmade instruments then please give this page a look! You can go through the pictures to see some of my work, and go through the posts to see what is available. As soon as something is sold, I'll take the post down. Thanks for looking and keep making music!
