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Kaiso, you said it all in your second sentence.I really don't want to get into this topic, especially when people have all kinds of pan making theories in their head and make it sound so simple to do and when you try to say why it can't happen, it's because tuners are still backward etc. After hearing that someone is going to invent a dome with the notes and will be able to press it on the drum to concave it with the notes stamped out so you can get a drum in five minutes to tune, i decided to not waste time talking about the skill and art manually needed after any pneumatic hammer work to get the bet set drums.I'm sure someone may want to take up this dome thing and theoretically feel it will be that easy. I certainly will not be part of such a discussion.
My reason for putting this out there is to alert us that others are standardizing, and everything. We as the founders should have our concepts out there also and we should be leading.
well, this is no trini-pan!
it seems to be a fancy ketchup-drum.
THATS de real way to sink! ;-)
"It takes eight hours to sink a drum" wow how many breaks do they take, it took a twelve year old boy in a workshop, using a sledge hammer 4 hours, it takes Dumplin 2hrs, it takes bill 30 minutes using apneumatic hammer,holding a ruler steady and walking round a drum my students made smother lines than the technician lol, but they want to make money, nothing wrong with that, their pans sound great (not in the video though) the tonal quailty is comparable to Trinis best, the exageration is an unecessary ploy, since the tuning requires a dedication that is a very unique skill that requires more understanding, than skill, as a tuner myself "the poor man's piano" takes a serious concentration, patience, and plenty of understanding to agitate a section of dead sounding metal and make it flexable enough to produce a sweet noise
what on earth!!!!!!!
Trini's better beware, this is going high tech. But rest assured this technique could never get the tonal quality and resonance of a high quality made in T&T instrument.
At least I hope so.