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Subject: Question for any timbaleros
From: sweavo (Steve Carter)
Date: 12th Dec 2005, 11:31 am

Don't know if there are any timbale players on here. Got a set myself, and am trying to decide which way round to set them up. "traditionally" the timbales are st with the hi tuned one on the right. However the drum kit has the high tom on the left, and I read that some players like to put them this way round. To complicate matters, I'm left handed, so I reverse the drum kit and my tomtoms are the same way round as a right-handed "traditional" timbalero...

I figure I could go the same way round as the majority of people have them, so that if I want to jam with someone we don't have to switch the timbales around. But which way round DO most people have them in this country?