Flower pot drums

Doumbeks are goblet-shaped drums typically found in the Middle East and North Africa. Doumbeks may be made from clay, as well as metal, plastic or fiberglass. You can make simple doumbeks from flower pots. This website may inspire you: http://www.kinderart.com/multic/dumbek.shtml
The instructions call for carpet tubes for the drum body. Personally I have substituted PVC pipe for the carpet tube for a few of my models. When PVC proved to be difficult to cut, I simply used another flower pot instead.

The top part of the flower pot doumbek is a six inch diameter pot. The body may be a four inch diameter carpet tube or four inch diameter Schedule 40 PVC pipe. Cut the tube or pipe to length: about twelve inches is enough. The drumhead rim is a six inch diameter plastic embroidery hoop. I have tried a wood hoop but find plastic is much more durable and flexible. For the actual drumhead, you may use a beach ball or a sheet of thin plastic. An inflatable plastic kiddy pool is  a passable source of this material. Thin plastic may be stretched tight. Beach balls and similar balls may be a bit thicker and have creases when deflated. Stretching the material tightly may be difficult but you can still get a passable sound if you make drumheads from a beach ball. Also, if embroidery hoops are not available, just stretch the drumhead directly over the flower pot and hold in place with a large, strong elastic band or two. Use duct tape or packaging tape to assemble the drum and keep the drumhead, hoop or elastic bands in place. Decorate the finished instrument as you wish.

Here are

photos of plastic doumbeks I have made so far. As an aside, I think these are more successful than my attempts at making authentic looking drums from clay.