Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 2004/12

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] "Strange doublings" and drums as non-pitched instruments
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:11:35 -0500

Danny=A0Bittker wrote:

> In regard to what Ormondtoby Montoya said,
> the tympani is NOT the only non-pitched
> drum; the steel drum is, in most cases, a fully
> chromatic instrument with usually a range of
> about two and a half octaves

My error, especially since a couple of people mentiioned steel drums
only a few messages ago.

I was hoping that someone who doubles seriously on non-pitched drums
would offer a comment as to whether they feel that percussion is
essentially a more "primitive" form of musical communication --- and I
don't mean 'primitive' in a perjorative sense, I mean only in the sense
of coming from somewhere in the 'older' part of the brain?

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