A full set of historical reproductions based on the models requested by Stravinsky on the sketches and the 1918 manuscript (Dep RS 75). “ST” stands for “Soldier´s Tale”, “K” stands for “Kapok”. It includes the following sticks and mallets:
Mailloche. A mallet featuring a wooden core covered with natural chamois skin. Maple tapered handle
A double -headed ST1 featuring a kapok end.. Maple tapered handle.
Baguette en jonc à tête en capoc. A pair of mallets featuring capoc heads. Rattan handles.
Baguette minces à petite têtes en éponge. A pair of mallets featuring small sponge heads. Thin beech handles.
Baguette en baleine à tête en feutre dur. A pair of mallets featuring hard pressed felt heads and baleen shafts. Beech handles.
Baguettes de timbales à tête en feutre dur. A pair of timpani sticks featuring cartwheel hard pressed felt heads. Maple tapered handles.
Baguettes en bois. A pair of double-headed regular drum sticks. One featuring a capoc head and the other one a mailloche. Maple.
A full set of historical reproductions to use on suspended cymbals and bass drum. Includes:
Historical repreductions of sponge-headed timpani sticks. Perfect for Berlioz and 19th-century reperoire.
A critical edition based on the 1918 sketches and manuscript kept at the Rychenberg Stiftung and the Paul Sacher Stiftung. 82 pages containing information never before published (instruments, setup, sticks, techniques, stickings, etc.). This edition gets rid of all the mistakes, errors and misprints perpetuated by the 1924 sources. It provides the reader with a clean, easy to read, true and accurate part. Reproductions of the originals, many diagrams and photos are included. The ultimate edition of Stravinsky´s masterwork.
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A critical edition of Jaques Frey´s Etrenne aux Dames ou Méthode de Tambour de Basque (1812). It contains long forgotten techniques like the roulement, coup basse, murmure, etc. An essential book if you are interested in historical techniques, want to play the works by Steibelt, Dale, Clementi, Mazzinghi and others or want to enrich your orchestral palette. Translated into English.
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A critical edition of Thomas Bolton´s Instructions for the Tambourine (1800). It contains techniques like the flamp, semiflamp, turn, etc. An essential book if you are interested in historical techniques, want to play the works by Steibelt, Dale, Clementi, Mazzinghi and others or want to enrich your orchestral palette.
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A critical edition of Joseph Dale´s Dale´s Instructions for the Tambourine (1800). It explains techniques like the shake, round gingle, staccato beat, basse en son harmonique, etc. An essential book if you are interested in historical techniques, want to play the works by Steibelt, Dale, Clementi, Mazzinghi and others or want to enrich your orchestral palette.
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