On drums...

Not sure I can expect to fire-up anyone else's enthusiasm, but I got an email yesterday containing notification that Sam Ash is shipping my replacement Drumdial, and hopefully it will be here in a few days. This one will have a digital readout.

The digital type has been unavailable for about a month now. Initially I entertained whether to buy the still available (and less expensive) analog type, or to wait out the month's delay. After some internal debate and the usual frittering away time to avoid actual decision making, I fell to the notion that it would be much easier to read big numbers on a lit face than it is to crane my neck into the shape of a serious attempt at tuning accuracy. That was the positive side. On the off side, I hate batteries and I love mechanical devices, but my principles were easily traded in for convenience.

It has been a long spell with some fairly weird residual tunings that were stuck, like a clock telling the time of an earthquake, when the old dial dropped. I could have continued to screw at the rods, but new tunings that cannot be documented seemed pointless, and it is too annoying hunting for a tuning I already know how to find. On a couple of occasions, I tried to straighten things up, to get all the drums speaking the same vocabulary, but as soon as one drum settled down another would start to act up, so I have been pretending that the existing tuning is interesting, and avoiding the odd resolution by avoiding certain drums after striking certain others. It has been a fertile month stylistically, but a drought for tuning, and I'm glad it's coming to an end.

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Gregory

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?

I'll certainly let you know. I rarely adhere to a strict note, but aim for relative pitch instead; nonetheless it will be easy enough to check the final tuning against A 440, or some-such. In my imagination, the digital readings come from the same brass bar as the analog system, but with the addition of implants. The analog system is measuring distance, and though I don't know what the increments are, I assume the maker does and can repeat them. In my imagination, I said.

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Gregory

Great news Gregory...

I just saw the digital version - http://drumdial.com/digital_drum_dial.htm
Several important things included - like the glass plate.

Very nice. I just wish they made the display with the ability to tilt - so one can look from an angle. But bigger numbers compensate for that, I guess...


Congratulations!!!


P.S. WHAT SNARE is pictured here?!? http://drumdial.com/precision_drum_tune ... _in_us.htm

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

Thanks, Goki. We'll see how this works out.

Don't know what that drum is; not any Sonor I've ever seen, though the lugs look similar.

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Gregory