Դհոլ - Dhol

So, as you're read in the previous post, I bought a dhol... It's a double headed cylindrical drum used in Armenian music. Shit, that's pretty sick right?

Well, about 2 hours after I bought this baby, I joined my home dawgs Vramshabou and Mattevos in the park to go jam. Vram always plays guitar in the park, but that day, we all got together and created a weird blues ensemble. 

Because I am just generally not a very organized person, I left my dhol's case out in the open. And passer-bys started giving us money. heheh Cause we'z hot stuff yo!!

Unfortunately, I had to go do some volunteer work I had forgotten about, but the boys kept playing, and they ended up making a little less than 7,000 Drams each!! (about 20 some dollars).  

The pic is not my own personal dhol, but it look s a lot like it. I play mine with a thick paintbrush (that I also purchased at Vernissage), a teaspoon (to bang the side of the drum) and a wine glass to create a cowbell effect (that one I stole from Marco Polo heheheh). You're supposed to play it with just your hands in the armenian tradition, but the boys are playing blues, so I had to jazz up my instrument a little to be on part.