Drums and Pitches

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Pitches and drums are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pitches" instead a verb "Drums".

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Drums and pitches are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drums" instead a verb "Pitches".

Steel drums were originally just that: they were originally fashioned from oil drums (Trinidad and Tobago, the instrument's home, is a major oil producing country) in which the tops are beaten down to create various pitches.

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Bernstein also liked transferring rhythmic motifs to relatively pitched drums, as in "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs," the prologue of West Side Story, several sections of Mass and the first movement of "Divertimento for Orchestra" (which calls for snare drums in four pitches).

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