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- Saleem
Agreed, if you're not positive that your knot won't come out then i highly suggest you just use a ring... but then u have to be careful the knot holding the ring doesn't come out either..
you put it through the loop that you made and pull down, and tie a knot making sure the tension isn't released. if the tension is released you'll have to re do it
The part with the knot, tie another not so that there would be a loop kind of thing left at the end of it, then you put the end of the rope through that loop and pull down to tighten that last end. then tie that end rope to anything to maintain the tension and you should be good
you shouldn't have excess rope in the begining because you usually tie a not with a loop kind of thing to use to tighten the string. the end of it though, i usually just loop it through the other string and make a braid kind of thing back and forth that i would connect my dhol strap too. don't...
As my team mate Richie stated, i prefer the sound of a single roped dhol over a double roped dhol. The amount of pull isn't going to be a factor if the dhaga head is put on correctly and tightly. The advantage of the double rope method is that its easier to have the tension evenly spaced all...