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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.
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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Sources & credits
- “Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth, UK - Tongue drum on Boscombe Pier” by Felicity Ford – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0