JESSE GREIST: Like I said, the challenges here are there have been a couple of times when I have not left this under the heat lamp and I've gotten the slightest beginnings of mold growing on the skin. That's super-dangerous. We don’t want that at all. What I've done to counter that is as soon as that happens, I've taken a damp cloth, wipe the mold off, the body of the drum and of the skin, and then put a hair dryer on it. My hair dryer, I never use it for my head, never use it for my hair but do use it for my instruments if they get a little too humid.

GRETCHEN HASSE: It's just like hair dryers are really necessary.

JESSE GREIST: It's a musician's best friend here, I'll tell you what, and you know use it on clothes when they don't get dry and because everything gets musty and moldy here.

GRETCHEN HASSE: What okay, silly question but just -- What would happen if you were to get mold in this instrument?

JESSE GREIST: Essentially, what would begin to happen is the mold would start to eat away at the skin. It is consuming what it's living on and so I would begin to get holes in the skin, and as soon as there are holes, then you get tearing and then the drum loses its tone. You have to replace the head.

GRETCHEN HASSE: And replacing the head would be real difficult.

JESSE GREIST: Replacing the head would be difficult. There is actually a drum maker here in town, and I could probably do that here but I imagine it would be very expensive. The instruments I have are in the exact condition that I brought them down here and --