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Old 10-27-2017, 05:26 PM   #2692
Flint
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
Gotta be a drum thing.
It is. I tried to fool you with this one, because it uses different materials on a part I thought might give it away.
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
... it's a skin stretcher for toms.
Had a good internal chuckle at this. No, not what this is. We generally apply pressure to the head to bend the pitch, either with the butt of the stick or sometimes your elbow. You can slowly let off the pressure to play a series of notes with descending pitch. I guess if you had a mechanical skin stretcher it would be... a timpani?
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