In Myanmar (Burma, Thailandd, and south Nias Island (Indonesia) a number of tuned barrel drums of varying sizes are suspended in a low circular pen to form drum chimes; such a chime may consist of from 16 to 24 drums, all played by a single musician with his fingers and palms, occasionally with a drumstick.
Mr. King also tunes drums.
Some of it involves multiple drummers playing meticulously tuned drums.
"I wanted to explore the sound of a mass of carefully tuned drums in collision with each other".
Ewe drummers are known to hold insult contests, shooting insults back and forth using specially tuned drums.
Mr. White's kit was festooned with microphones, to pick up the nuances of his precisely tuned drums.
Most frequently "chime" refers to the bell chime, but it also denotes tubular bells, or orchestral bells; the stone chimes, or lithophone; drum chimes, sets of tuned drums found in Myanmar (Burma and Thailandd; and gong chimes, the sets of tuned gongs used in the gamelan orchestras of Southeast Asia.
Their instruments -- including Mr. Naing's circle of tuned drums (pat waing) and racks of gongs of many sizes -- were housed in a gilded, filigreed bandstand that looked like a royal barge, complete with a golden-winged mythical beast poised above a drummer's head.
Tomorrow night sees more formal concert offerings: this week's, called "East/West," brings the Burmese percussion virtuoso Kyaw Kyaw Naing to perform with the Bang on a Can All-Stars; Mr. Naing's instrument is the pat waing, 21 tuned drums arranged in a circle around the performer.
Drum keys are used to tune drums and cost about two dollars at a music store.
