Documentation of reheading a nagado taiko for Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan. This video shows the process starting with an already molded head through completion of the reheading. The drum being reheaded is "A," the last of the main series of chu to be reheading in the last few years.
Wine barrel drums were pioneered by Kinnara Taiko at the Senshin Buddhist Temple in the early 1970's and quickly spread through Buddhist networks, where taiko groups were envisioned as youth temple activities. Making taiko also spread to San Francisco Taiko Dojo and made possible the formation of many new community groups in North America. Dedicated craftspeople such as Mark Miyoshi (Denver Buddhist Church) helped develop folk knowledge and traditions of drum making, which spread through Asian America through church and community groups.
Many early collegiate taiko groups made their own drums, including Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan. The team continues to rehead these drums when the skins wear out. In our group, which practices three times a week and performs regularly, a head lasts about five or six years. As such, it is almost a yearly occurrence to rehead a drum, which ensures the knowledge is passed on.
With my tenure on the team lasting undergraduate through graduate school, I have primarily taken on this responsibility, but I hope to pass some of this knowledge on. This video is part of a series that I hope might help the team practically, but I also see ethnographic value in these North American drum-making traditions as well. In 2021, I applied for a grant from the JACCC (The Kintsugi Sprit) to make and video document this drum making tradition, but was not selected. I hope to make a more professional and organized project some day, as well perform ethnographic research on this folk tradition. For now, the documentation is a bit of an afterthought as I try to teach students and get our drums headed in time for our various events!
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