#percussionists

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Cover of the 1961/62 Ludwig Drums & Percussion Instruments catalog.

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Stewart Copeland of The Police

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[haphazardbooks]

musicians of tumblr!!!

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas season

(Yes, I know, you non-musical heathens! Christmas music is starting now)

I also wish:

-all strings minimal crumbling of rosin blocks

-all violins minimal Eb on the A string

-all violas minimal jokes directed toward them

-all percussionists minimal tempos beneath 50 bpm

-all woodwinds minimal triplet scale patterns at high tempo

-all reeds minimal mixing up of chapstick and cork grease

-all brass minimal rusted/stuck spit valves

-all french horns minimal pulling out of every single tuning slide to find the condensation that's hiding from you

-all trombones minimal B naturals with no F attachment

-all vocalists minimal mic troubles during solos

-all altos minimal staying on mi for half the song

-all basses minimal being ignored by everyone else

and most importantly

I wish everyone

Minimal

Hiccups

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Neil Young/Stephen Stills

I ship it!

Sure, why not/I can see it

Neutral

I don’t ship it

I don’t know them

Non-rpf shipper button

Voting ended onOct 20, 2024

Reason:

“theres a lot but mostly they are trapped in a vicious cycle of divorcing and undivorcing for 50+ years. eat a peach”

[the-randomest-of-usernames]

Story time with Random:

So i was in marching band, and we were practicing drill because Festival is coming up on Monday. (If you’re not in band, drill is where we are on the field for our halftime show and Festival is our big yearly competition with other bands). I was on the hash (line on football field), so as a joke one of the other kids in drumline called me hash-boy. Funny, i laughed, i love that people are calling me a guy now. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (two annoying ass transphobic guys who play the snare drum) overheard and of course had to “correct” him. Dee: “That’s a woman.” Dum: “No, that’s an it. A creature.” (Little do they know, while I don’t particularly like it/its pronouns, I am not opposed. And being called a creature is kinda cool) Dum, thinking: “Hash-It” Dee and Dum, having an epiphany: “HATCHET!”

What they shortly realized is that Hatchet is a cool ass nickname. I really hope it sticks tho. Idc if it was based on them being dicks, I am perfectly fine with being called a Hatchet.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Keiko Abe

Marimba player Keiko Abe was born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. Abe is one of the world's best-known solo marimba players. She began playing the marimba at age 12, and started gaining notoriety at 14 after winning an NHK talent competition. Abe has greatly influenced the evolution of marimba music by creating new techniques as well as commissioning and writing compositions. She also worked with the Yamaha Corporation to develop the five-octave marimba, which became the standard size for concert marimba. She has performed in over 60 countries. In 1993, Abe was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, becoming the first woman to receive this honor.

[kathryn-blake]

Blake, Kathryn- Just Ordinary, for solo percussion

Publishing contemporary music since 1969.

Hi all! So, exciting news: my work for solo percussion, Just Ordinary (2019) is published through Media Press Music!

You can purchase the score on their website!

Listen to the piece on Soundcloud