GOURD DRUM ENGINEERING

Our goal is to advance art and science of gourd percussion and to encourage people who have never made their own instruments before to take that first crucial step toward innovation... Gourd Drum Engineering represents the cumulative efforts of makers Joel Newmiller and Philip McIntosh in the realm of gourd percussion instrument design. Our gourd journey started several years ago by getting pretty good at making basic hand drums-ones that lasted, looked good, and played well. After mastering Basic Hand Drums, we began tackling other instruments for which few resources exist. Then we started inventing some new ones.