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Pro Africa-Style Carved Djembes: Each a Pinnacle Piece

Pro African-Style Carved Djembes: Each a Pinnacle PieceToca Percussion has a solid background fashioning djembes in the indigenous Africa tradition—one that will sustain the rigors of climates and usages in locations thousands of miles apart. Also, Toca Pro Africa Style Carved Djembes take their shape from one piece—a single resonant block—of environmentally friendly plantation grown mahogany. Mahogany is a historically valued tone wood, while the one-piece construction is a rarely invoked means of ensuring unimpeded resonance.

Lathe turned for uniform thickness, the Toca Pro Africa Djembe is sealed and protected from climate/humidity shifts by means of hand-applications of twenty coats of teak oil to each kiln-dried single-piece shell. The sealing coats protect outer folkloric graphics and inner roughened-carved carvings, the latter serving to diffuse and reduce aberrant overtones that might disturb the essential warm highs and robust lows inherent in such a masterful instrument.

The head is chosen from a special selection of fine goatskin, the optimum djembe head in terms of response, dynamic sensitivity and frequency range. Heads are tuned via a web of low-stretch specially configured Alpine rope runners, now increased in number, with braided cores for extra strength. Extra top sealers and tuning-base rings provide stable, well-anchored tuning free of slippage problems. Available in 10", 12" and 13" sizes, the Toca Pro Africa-Style Carved Djembe is as much a premium instrument as it is a collectible piece of folk art. Either way, no mass production methods, compromises in hand labor, or diminution of materials has been entertained, such that the Toca Carved Djembe stands proud as the pinnacle of the art.

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