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    Drume Hand

    in General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, ZilchWoolham said:

    The Caribbean steel drum is an altogether older and distinct instrument, but all these other flying saucer shaped things are clones of a relatively modern instrument called the Hang. I see some pop up in various for sale groups on Facebook, classifieds pages etc. from time to time, and they're all indeed very expensive and seem to be sold and bought exclusively by New Age people.

    A mate of mine was interested in buying one of these for some years ago. Apparently, the original maker is a guy in Switzerland. To buy one, you had to commission it from him and agree per contract that if you later decided to sell the instrument you would sell it back to him or through him to someone else. He developed his own alloys and everything and had no interest in licensing the idea to anyone else. This was back in the 90s - no doubt by now others have figured out how to do it.

    Ponc3y music critics

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    8 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

     Problem was getting past the generally pretentious bollix that passed for  reviews and trying to work out what they were on about. I've just come across a website for Robert Christgau, supposedly some big shot music journo in the 70s-80s. ...

    That's not so much the issue than his arcane, indecipherable  way of writing which leaves you scratching your head wondering 'wtf was that about?' Anyone else heard of him or fancy a rant about other music hacks. As they say, 'those who can, do, those who can't, teach and those who can't teach write about music'.

    I agree entirely. Do you remember the free newspaper that used to be available in music shops back in the 80s? It was called Making Music.
    My favourite section of the paper was called the Jay Arthur column (I presume that was rhyming slang coming from J Arthur Rank) it contained any current gems of such overly self-indulgent language in reviews.

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