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n2ize
05-03-2013, 06:19 AM
Why are drums round ?
w0aew
05-03-2013, 06:21 AM
Why are drums round ?

To fit better in the back of the van?
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 09:05 AM
Avoidance of nodes of tension. Perhaps that would make a good avatar, eh?
kb2vxa
05-03-2013, 10:10 AM
That theory would work if they were spherical like pressure vessels, now try looking at the manufacturing process.

"Perhaps that would make a good avatar, eh?"

Yeah, I suppose so.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 03:23 PM
This is interesting..,.

http://arpjournal.com/871/fine-tuning-percussion-%E2%80%93-a-new-educational-approach/
kb2vxa
05-03-2013, 03:49 PM
OK, when it comes to acoustic drums what's so modern about analysis? Just ask yourself the question why are hollow logs round. Then one more, why does striking it at different points result in different tones? If the ancients got all scientific about it a modern drum kit would have one log and two sticks... and a bunch of deaf termites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA
K7SGJ
05-03-2013, 06:44 PM
OK, when it comes to acoustic drums what's so modern about analysis? Just ask yourself the question why are hollow logs round. Then one more, why does striking it at different points result in different tones? If the ancients got all scientific about it a modern drum kit would have one log and two sticks... and a bunch of deaf termites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA

To the best of my knowledge, even logs that aren't hollow, are pretty much round, too. However, you can beat the shit out of one just about anywhere with a Louisville slugger, and they don't change tone very much.

Maybe it's the TIMBRE that changes?
NQ6U
05-03-2013, 06:46 PM
To the best of my knowledge, even logs that aren't hollow, are pretty much round, too.

On the other hand, roots are square.
K7SGJ
05-03-2013, 06:51 PM
Now you're barking up the wrong log. But you are branching out.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 07:03 PM
Or cubed...
n2ize
05-03-2013, 07:03 PM
On the other hand, roots are square.

But some roots are cubes.
n2ize
05-03-2013, 07:07 PM
Or cubed...

Some are imaginary.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 07:13 PM
Which may require irrational solutions...
K7SGJ
05-03-2013, 07:17 PM
Which may require irrational solutions...

WELL, THIS IS CERTAINLY THE PLACE FOR THAT.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 07:19 PM
SEZ THE DESERT RAT, LOUDLY. :spin:
K7SGJ
05-03-2013, 07:21 PM
Oops
n2ize
05-03-2013, 07:38 PM
SEZ THE DESERT RAT, LOUDLY. :spin:

I was once referred to as a "desert rat". During coffee break I used to abandon my male coworkers and sneak off to flirt with and have coffee with the rather good looking secretary of the drafting department. One day one of them found where I was always sneaking off to and called me a "desert rat". I still cannot imagine what he meant by that comment.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 08:08 PM
You deserted them, you rat...
N2NH
05-03-2013, 09:26 PM
I'm thinking because they were once made of skins (like leather) and the even tension that a round drumhead made for a more even sound and a sound that was predictable over the area of the drumhead. I've known a lot of drummers. They're as crazy as they come but they are pretty incredible people to get the sound they do from something like that.
WØTKX
05-03-2013, 09:36 PM
Yea. One of my favorite "crazy" drummers...

http://youtu.be/qWabhnt91Uc


http://youtu.be/qWabhnt91Uc
K7SGJ
05-04-2013, 09:15 AM
Yea. One of my favorite "crazy" drummers...

http://youtu.be/qWabhnt91Uc


http://youtu.be/qWabhnt91Uc

You call that a drummer? This is a friggin drummer:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3vLQ7iCz94
kb2vxa
05-04-2013, 07:14 PM
Hmmm, brings back memories of one of my favorite shows on radio and how Lou always put his signature "breathe" in the pause at the end of the show's closing theme. Lou "The Duck" D'Antonio hosted a free-form program (for many years called The Hour of the Duck) at WFMU from 1962-1990. Then a turn of the dial to WOR and the Bahn Frei Polka signaled the beginning of Jean Shepherd's show... Excelsior you fathead!
KC2UGV
05-05-2013, 07:34 PM
Why are drums round ?

Easiest shape to roll metal into.
W3WN
05-06-2013, 10:16 AM
Why are drums round ?Because, with all due respect to Huey Lewis & the News, it's not hip to be square.
NQ6U
05-06-2013, 10:21 AM
Apparently, not all drums are round:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d13/Darryl7466/ResizeWizardNEONEDGECLDJ-1-1.jpg
WØTKX
05-06-2013, 10:24 AM
They are round on the inside. And the Bongo player was one of humanity's best "crazy" minds.
N7YA
05-10-2013, 07:16 AM
Heres a couple of guys i shared the stage and studio with over the years...i consider myself a lucky bastard! :yes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TQ4TqiAFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmgxXYi775o&list=PL07A03DA991C585CC&index=2



And my current drummer, Mario...i dont know whats up with the masks....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTanltDDcU