Vintage Ludwig Bass Drum
When I first started at the Pensacola Bay Concert Band, they were using this old bass drum. I came to learn that this was a hand-me-down drum from one of the local middle schools. It had just been sitting on Read More …
Civic Band and 5-Piece Drumkit
I mentioned this briefly on my Percussion page, but I rejoined the Pensacola Civic Band this month. It was not really all that expected. A few years ago, I got wind that they were shorthanded in their percussion section, but Read More …
Ludwig LKS402PG Timpani
I haven’t really talked much about the used pair of timpani I recently purchased (I can talk about it here because no one will read it anyway), and I don’t want to go into much detail about how I went Read More …
Brakes Drums? Sure, Okay.
You never know when you’re going to need a pair of brake drums, so I went to the metal scrapyard where my mom works and picked up a couple. One of them is a 10 inch and the other is Read More …
Next Percussion Project: Saucer Bells
I was looking around at Steve Weiss and found these Saucer Bells. These are inexpensive brass bells tuned chromatically from C7 to C8 (the highest octave on a typical glockenspiel or xylophone). Unfortunately, I found they are difficult to play Read More …