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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:17:56 -0500
From: Richard Fenno <rfenno @ earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CB] [Contra digest]on 6/2/00 6:18 PM, List Server wrote:
>> A question for any of our percussion players: can roto-toms be
>> surrepetitiously retuned during performance the way timpani can?When I was being very mean to my ex-wife I bought my son, who was starting
drums, a set of Rotos and a Rocktagon cymbal for use at her house.He's turned into a very swinging drummer, regardless!
Richard Fenno
Austin, Texas---------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:40:12 -0700
From: jim & joyce <lande @ erols.com>
Subject: [CB] TimpsOnce or twice I got to fool with the timps back in
highschool band. Way cool. But the drum dums would chase
me off ("hey, we just got them tuned": like it was any big
deal. I know there as a jazz timp player back in the
thirties. Does anyone do that today? It is hard enough
hauling around a contra clarinet, but does anyone know the
current cost of a timp? (Maybe I should search eBay --
imagine the shipping on a set of four!)jim lande
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From: Heliconman @ aol.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 08:20:28 EDT
Subject: Re: [CB] TimpsIn a message dated 06/02/2000 11:38:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lande @ erols.com writes:
> Once or twice I got to fool with the timps back in
> highschool band. Way cool. But the drum dums would chase
> me off ("hey, we just got them tuned": like it was any big
> deal. I know there as a jazz timp player back in the
> thirties. Does anyone do that today? It is hard enough
> hauling around a contra clarinet, but does anyone know the
> current cost of a timp? (Maybe I should search eBay --
> imagine the shipping on a set of four!)
>
> jim landeThe tune that sticks in my head was a 60s twist style rock instrumental
called Brontosaurus Stomp. Don't remember how much the tymps were retuned
during the piece but there were spots where a tymp would slide up in pitch.
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