Rockcreek Steel Drums Presents The Single and Double Tank Drum .wmv

[dumvat]

1:17 what is that song, i know it from somewhere...

[Max0Inq]

@dumvat Over the rainbow.

[rockboy4cs]

@dumvat somewhere over the rainbow , its the song.

[PatriotMetalsFL]

Please look at the camera next time and not yourself in the monitor. The direction of your gaze is sort of freaking me out. Thanks.

[macmorrisonguitar]

hey just uploaded a video of myself playing a tank drum on my channel, please watch and tell me waht u think!!

[DSlam]

Yeah, especially when a particular tune requires a lot of notes in sucession. Beautiful sound.... It's just that some of the notes clash when they overlap.

[DSlam]

Beautiful sound! I think it would be much better if the player had more control over the amount of sustain... because of the long sustain duration some of the notes were clashing.

[Sammyboy72]

I can't see why you shouldn't mute the notes when you want to.

[Sammyboy72]

@DSlam Not sure I was clear with that. A lot of people play these with their hands, rather than mallets. It would be a skill you'd need to acquire, but I'm certain you can easily mute a ringing note by touching it with your hand. On the other hand, with a structure like this you're going to get sympathetic vibration; the more you play, the more the other notes are going to ring gently, and muting all of them would be hard.

[101Osprey101]

Decent tone. Now you need to post a vid of someone playing something a little more interesting. Music choices on this were really not the best. You can show tone and decay with a simple scale. Let's here what the thing can do when played by a good musician.

[TankDrumVideo]

check out Tankdrum.com for some really nice sounding Tankdrums...

[MrAdewilliams]

Lovely sound, But can I ask - why are the keys arranged on opposite sides? Would it work as well if the notes were arranged in scale sequence in a clockwise manner C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C etc? I know this mirrors steel drum layout, but is there a technical reason for it?

[VvladDMoiseev]

if you play with sticks your sound is louder than without a sticks, but "hand playing" is real and nice. This drum is the miracle! Thanks from Russia, Kevin)

[redserpent18]

can you play it by hand?

[TamboresDeJaykub]

@redserpent18 yes

[Blizzard964]

@redserpent18 yes

[pete5668]

that would sound wild while on acid lol

[CaineI]

@pete5668 I bought a mini accordion for a trip, played it for 20hrs straight and it was awesome. my hang drum arrives at the end of the week, I can tell you how they go on trips if you want

[HeliToker]

@pete5668 haha i like the way you think, im growing shrooms and now have to  make a hank drum

[464748]

@pete5668 you think this would rock on acid^^

than watch this: /watch?v=17ojj7tgrqw

[1gannuscio]

Please post a video of this drum being played with hands rather than mallets. Thanks...

[snoozy81]

Can you play it with your hands like a hang drum?

[nevetsnosrap]

are those open bottomed?

[twitchyjeff]

any chance of uk suppliers? hang drums seem out of my price range so im looking for cheaper equivalants.

[hellrazor4ever]

hank drum? cheap copy of the "hang"... no comparison to the beautiful, mystical and penetrating sound of the hang

[DeeJayChipZ]

I agree

[dhavlena]

HI

Very good going SDB!

I must gently disagree about a minor point however -- when I invented the hank drum, I had the hang drum in mind, not the steel drum.

"Intention" may not make a thing so, but I wanted something that played and was keyed like a hang. I love steel drums too, but my inspiration was the hang. The tongue concept is just as foreign to the steel drum as is is to the hang drum. Whatever their ancestry, you've got a nice thing going there! Keep on!!!

Dennis Havlena

[antonkoren]

hi Dennis, just wanted to point out that tongues are not really foreign to the steel drum, these two were mixed together back in the 80s' when Denzil Fernandez invented the "bora steeldrum" which had so called "reeds" or tongues. they were used to produce an octave overtone to the fundamental note of the bora pan. :)

[earthjustice01]

Nice drums. Great idea to make a chromatic double-tank drum. That will be my next project. You are dead right that the hank drum should be considered part of the steeldrum family. There's way too much emphasis on the Hang, when steelpans are the real grandaddy of them all

[nivsha]

Beautiful! Wow!