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Tongue drum on Boscombe Pier

England, United Kingdom

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Bournemouth, United Kingdom on 23 January 2023, in the afternoon. Soundscape: sea & waves and harbours, ports & boats.

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Tongue drum on Boscombe Pier
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Spectrogram of Tongue drum on Boscombe Pier
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Recordist's notes

The Boscombe Pier Music Trail continues with this beautiful tongue drum, which is struck with the hands to produce beautiful resonant tones. I played it for a good ten minutes but unfortunately a lot of the audio ended up being really clippy - there was very low and very bright winter sun that made it hard to see the digital display on the EDIROL R09 as I recorded this, and the headphone jack is broken... even so, here is a small glimpse of the drum playing together with the sea.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Bournemouth is a city of about 163,600 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 18 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Roland / Edirol R-05 & R-09. Compact Roland/Edirol recorders that were popular for early sound-map contributions.

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