Re: [69ATTENDEES] hand drums?

[Tom Vest <[e-mail]>]

Would these be acceptable for Vancouver?

(part of the Packet Droppers Road Rig)

http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx? 
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Tom

On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

>
> One of these days, the planets will align and our ad-hoc APRICOT band,
> "The Packet Droppers," will join Spencer and co for a pre-plenary
> concert. Until then, you'll have to make do with some pictures:
>
> http://www.yikes.com/~ole/PD-Bali/index.html
>
> Or maybe we should just combine IETF and APRICOT :-) :-)
>
> Ole
>
>
> Ole J. Jacobsen
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>
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
>
>> Hi, Jeff,
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Jeff Hodges wrote:
>>>
>>>> who was it that brought the hand drums this eve (yes, i shud  
>>>> know yer
>>>> name,
>>>> sorry)?
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> That would be Spencer Dawkins and we all just sort of join in...
>>>
>>> Ole
>>
>> And thanks to others who joined in, at this and previous IETFs.  
>> This was the
>> first IETF where we had attendee kids joining us - Mary Barnes'  
>> youngest, on
>> Monday night, IIRC. I look forward to having Darwin join us.
>>
>> And please note that there is no audition required - we have  
>> enough to
>> share...
>>
>> This tradition started at IETF 41 in LA. I had attended JavaOne  
>> the previous
>> week in San Francisco, and had purchased a doumbek that I happened  
>> to be
>> carrying when I met Aaron Falk - Aaron is also a drummer, so while  
>> we were
>> co=chairing PILC, we started every working group meeting with a  
>> short drumming
>> break.
>>
>> Although we were also drumming at plenaries, we stopped this  
>> practice as a
>> courtesy during the ADMIN-REST period, because everyone who had been
>> participating in ADMIN-REST discussions seemed to arrive at the  
>> plenary with a
>> severe headache.
>>
>> My favorite memories, and there have been a bunch of them, were
>>
>> (1) drumming at the park outside the hotel in Oslo at about 1 AM  
>> (in late
>> July, it was still "day"-light) and the only reason we stopped at  
>> 1 AM was
>> because it started to rain,
>>
>> (2) drumming at the park outside the hotel in Washington, DC  
>> (Aaron had driven
>> his family down, so was able to bring a large djembe in the car),
>>
>> (3) drumming at the entertainment park during the social in  
>> Orlando - I still
>> had my doumbek cover then, and someone left a dollar bill on it  
>> while we were
>> playing. That's the entire salary I've collected as a drummer  
>> after turning
>> 18, and Aaron and I tore it in half - I still have my half.
>>
>> (4) getting stopped in airport security in Yokohama (aluminum  
>> doumbeks look
>> quite "interesting" when you x-ray the bag they are in - I was  
>> best able to
>> explain to the nice Japanese security types by just playing the  
>> drums,
>> standing in the checkpoint area).
>>
>> I've mostly moved to small frame drums for IETFs, because they are  
>> so easy to
>> pack. At this IETF, I had four frame drums (three nested), one  
>> tambourine, one
>> Pandeiro (looks like a tambourine, but the jingles are "choked",  
>> so they don't
>> have the same bright tinkling sound), and a brass doumbek - and  
>> could carry
>> all of them in one hand.
>>
>> So - a couple of things "in advance" -
>>
>> (1) I'd like to invite people to bring small hand drums to  
>> Vancouver - see you
>> there, and
>>
>> (2) I'd like to apologize to my current co-chair, Eric Burger, who  
>> was not
>> warned about my drumming past during discussions with Jon about  
>> adding me as
>> co-chair.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Spencer
>>
>>
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