Dresdner Apparatebau Jähne & Boruvka timpani. I have been wanting a pair of timpani suitable for playing the repertoire of the 19th-century for quite some time so, because I have been a very good boy, I decided to include them in my letter to the Three Wise Men. To my surprise, Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar… Continue reading Dresdner Apparatebau Jähne & Boruvka timpani
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Modification of a Premier bass drum
Modification of a Premier bass drum. This project is a consequence of a larger one; namely, to provide myself with the proper drums to recreate as close as possible the original sound, character and looks in Stravinsky´s “The Soldier´s Tale”. For the bass drum I used a 28″x12″ Premier (model 188) from the 70s.… Continue reading Modification of a Premier bass drum