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Originally Posted by saciestudio  Positively not gonna have leather sound off plastic heads. The samba school pandeiro sound has mostly "jingle" (the brazilian name is "platinela"). The leather is used more as a emulated drumkit where you get the platinelas as hihats and the fingertips as kick and snare. |
Right. That's the sound I'm after....
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..its confection, using membrane of goat skin to obtain themselves, in the pandeiro, the serious sounds of the deaf person and platinelas of noble metals to reach a shining and necessary sound. ...
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I love Babelfish. "The serious sounds of the deaf person" meaning "the deep sounds of the surdo drum."
Anyway, thanks for your input. I should just get an tom head and experiment, if I want to improve on my cheapie, right?
Cheers,
++aldo