FANTASTiC | 14 June 2016 | 329 MB

The Steel Tongue Drum is made from an empty propane tank. It has a resonant and mysterious voice, suitable for cinematic and ambient music. We recorded finger and mallet performances on the drum face, as well as multiple percussive hits on its back and sides.

The Steel Tongue Drum is a Hank Drum, made from an empty propane tank. The tank is flipped over, the base cut away, and seven to ten tongues are cut radically into the bottom of the tank, forming the top of the instrument.

Our Steel Tongue Drum has nine tongues and covers the range C1 to C5, which we mapped as C3 to C7. We stretched some notes for complete playability over the range.

We recorded tonal hits using both fingers and mallets, as well as non-tonal hits from the rear and side of the instrument. Each note has four velocity layers and four round robins.

Steel Tongue Drum features:

Finger and mallet chromatic articulations

Percussive side and rear drum hits

4 round robins and 4 velocity layers

461 stereo 24-bit WAV samples

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