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In the percussion world, we don’t say “I love you,” we say “paradiddle paradiddle para paradiddle One-e-and-a-two-e-and-a-three-e-and-a dut digidigidigi dut digi dut digidigidigi dut push and dut dut dut 234 dut dut dut 234” which roughly translates to “I sound like a two year old half the time” and I think that’s just beautiful.

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If you ever judge a percussionist based on how weird their face is when they play the drum set, then you are a terrible person.

every percussionist ever (via spiceinthecoffee)

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Vivalda Dula, Angolan singer, songwriter, and percussionist

When was the last time you saw a percussionist this fly rocking a bodycon dress?

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Project AH A MAY - Designers at Yamaha switch roles to create each other’s products

Product designers at Yamaha switched places with members of their motorcycle division so they could apply their unique talents and design philosophies to each other’s sectors and the results are utterly fascinating.

Intended to allow their designers to understand one another whilst also ‘embodying the spirit of Yamaha’, the teams’ efforts have resulted in various products including those pictured above:

‘Raijin’ (‘God of Thunder’) - a fantastic cage-like sphere filled with drums and cymbals

‘Root’ - an elegant (if seemingly unrideable) motorcycle with a curving body

‘Fujin’ (‘God of Wind’) - a spinning two-person Marimba wherein one plays while the other spins the bars round

The designs showcase what spectacular things can result from this sort of interdisciplinary project. I hope other companies with such varied teams can follow suit and push the bar a little.

See more at: Core77