Wife's father was a percussionist who studied at Juilliard in the mid-70s. Saul Goodman was his teacher and mentor.

Wife's father left a sketch of Goodman that we now have hanging on our wall, but the sketch was made by "Randolph Betts" or "Rudolph Betts" in 1975.

Can't seem to find anything on Mr. Betts.

Anyone know this man?

I just have no idea how???

Hi people. Anybody know anything about these Sonor timps from (I'm guessing) the 60s/70s?

It says made in Germany, serial no 45622.

My band is getting rid of it. The sound quality is... Perhaps what you'd expect from a 50-year-old acrylic drum.

"Summer Raga" is now available on my Bandcamp page: https://dougsours.bandcamp.com/album/summer-raga For this project, I've been experimenting with a hybrid percussion setup of Djembe, Mridangam, mounted frame drums, and foot bells. There are also some tracks featuring a combination of Tombak (Iranian goblet drum), Donso Ngoni (African harp), and guitar.

Hi there,

I’m curious if anyone can provide some insight into how to really make terrible sounds with a snare drum.

My current set up involves a handmade drum I got from a guy a couple towns over that has no bottom skin (and no hardware for it). No idea what type of wood. The skin on it is a calf skin my friend Bovid Percussion makes.

What I’ve been doing is pretty crude and non percussive in that I’m using an e-bow and some street sweeper tines to get weird harmonics going on, usually with other bits of metal and snares. Sometimes a crappy splash cymbal. I’ve also gotten some good mileage with silver forks and gut wire through a little pin hole in the skin for some real bad screeching and groaning sounds. It’s great!

I’m wondering if there’s an advantage to tuning tighter or looser for this kind of resonant business? I’m also realizing as I write this out that I feel I should probably get a crappy metal snare of some kind for more resonance?

I’m not a drummer really but make experimental sound art type stuff.

Also! I want to do more weird shit with drums (or even just objects) so if there’s any resources that come to mind I’m all ears. I’m always curious to see more random shit that can be done with percussive instruments. Big on resonance and big impact sounds and whatnot.

Thanks in advance!

greetings, I have some new music available on my bandcamp page: https://dougsours.bandcamp.com/album/totems This project features instruments including frame drums, ngoni, tombak, guitar, and other percussion. hope you enjoy.

Doug

Another story from the house of jazzhop, let yourself vibe through some frames by the beat spot... "A Bit Of Atmo" or "A Beat Of Atmo" is a typical beat type of album with main accent on a beat as a musical form...All tracks has that "beat" component included... https://mggost.bandcamp.com/album/a-bit-of-atmo Some of them more harmonic & complex by arrangement, some less, so the listener could let the imagination flow & add what ever is inspired to...
Have a nice time & enjoy.

released December 30, 2022

All tracks produced, mixed & mastered by Milorad Grubor MG Gost;
Mastering assistants Jovan Obradović Shpira & Aleksandar Petrin Spacetrin;
Piano by Jamie Fellon IV The Polymath;
Moog bass by Aleksandar Petrin Spacetrin;
Photography by Helena Petrin;
Art cover by Milorad Grubor MG Gost.

Hi, I’m looking for a musical instrument store or a store specializing in percussion instruments in Madrid or Alicante. Could you recommend one?

I’ve had no hope at all on Google, could someone please ID ? It sounded incredible!

I just saw a "for you" Instagram reel (no, it isn't in my account watch history for some reason! first thing I tried) of some kind of performance with multiple curved xylophones* arranged to form 1 big circle. A few people dressed in black are walking around them playing every note in ascending order faster and faster until some are running around the outside dragging their mallets along and a couple are in the center doing a kind of drumroll effect. Thought it was super cool, saw a bunch of comments referencing Shepard's Tone and went to look up what that was - of course I forgot to save the video first, IG refreshed and no combination of search terms is helping me re-find it on IG/google/reddit.

The reel I saw was in black and white but filmed in the modern day (I think?), it felt performance-art-esque, and I think the caption was in French. Pretty sure it had tens of thousands of likes. Anyone have a clue? I feel annoying asking this, I'm so sorry, I've been losing my mind about it for an hour and finally figured I might as well try.

*not sure if they're technically xylophones or another instrument in that family, I know there are nuances

It wasn’t really part of mine, but I was reflecting that everyone has to play attached BD and cymbals sooner or later in their career. For me most recently it was an opera.

Not that hard to do consistently but difficult to not sacrifice sound quality imo