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Well there you are, people don't like it. I can't help that. Wether that's drummers or just people out there. Fur coats will start a similar debate too. Hunting, industrial slaughter, people out there hate it as much as meat eaters don't care or even love it. If an artist is Vegan and doesn't want to use any sort of animal product then that's ok by me. I suppose this extends to stringed instruments too with the use of Gut? Anyway No I don't use Calfskin heads. I took them off my RK's. The kit came complete with RK stamped logo's on them top and bottom. I don't want to destroy them. I have only left the front BD head in place for cool factor. The MT sounded really good but the FT was a bit afro souvenir drum sounding, might of needed a new one possibly. I actually prefer to use modern heads on the drums for general playing, that deep mahogany tone is still absolutely shining through. But if I was paid enough to recreate that genuine 40's sound I would use them, or order some new ones I guess. As for the parchment, It's incredible that your countries history is preserved in it's original form. I guess ancient texts like our Magna Carta is parchment(edit: Just checked and it's on Sheepskin parchment). This is from my home town, check this out. The guy was hung then a book bound from his own skin to detail the trial, execution and subsequent decimation of his body.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blog/john-horwood-book/ I'm originally from Hanham and lived in the Bedminster area of Bristol for years near where he was tried and executed!!edit: Just remembered in our city centre we have the Hatchett Inn. A layer of it's front door is made from human skin. Now painted/tarred over etc as it's been there for centuries. However there are still inflections of hair in the surface!!! Her's a quick link.http://www.strangestbooks.co.uk/page%2017.html http://www.bristolpubs.co.uk/the-hatchet-inns-door-which-has-a-strange-storey-attached/

I certainly understand you not wanting to use the 70 year old vintage calfskin heads that came with the kit. Its extraordinary that you have them at all.

Keep in mind the Magna Carta is 800 year old and one of the four existing copies, which I saw when I was in London quite a few years ago, was still in pretty good shape. The United States founding documents are only 240 years old. Almost new by comparison. They are faded, but still quite readable. and are stored in special gas filled cases meant to preserve them. They can still be seen at the National Archives in Washington DC, which is open to the public.

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