{"id":1648,"date":"2025-06-02T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:39:20","slug":"barry-the-tympani-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Barry the Tympani Player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In last night’s dream I was playing timpani for some orchestra. I had just purchased my own set of three tymps: one worked correctly, one couldn’t be tuned properly and was stuck on one note, and one was rectangular (!!!) and looked like a farmer’s sink. Barry Baudanza<\/a> was playing the xylophone. He said to me “This piece really needs the sound of calfskin; do you have a skin head you could use?” Then he said “Let’s go over this section where we play the same theme.” I looked at the music, and I was supposed to play this descending chromatic melody which would have been difficult on three WORKING timpani, let alone the crazy set I had. I handed my mallets to Barry and said “I’m a drum set player. I played tymps in high school, but I’m not cut out for this orchestra.” Barry scoffed, but I could tell he was annoyed. Then another player came up and showed us his new stick bag, so the conversation turned to Reunion Blues bags, and I woke up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last night’s dream I was playing timpani for some orchestra. I had just purchased my own set of three tymps: one worked correctly, one couldn’t be tuned properly and was stuck on one note, and one was rectangular (!!!) and looked like a farmer’s sink. Barry Baudanza was playing the xylophone. He said to … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1648","6":"format-standard","7":"category-crazy-dreams","8":"category-music-and-drumming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}