theres some fife and drum corp in my town that uses them but its just one woman who i sewear they use just for the gliz and glamour becuase she can twirl mallets that have straps on the ends while playing quarter notes


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Thats because in a scotch band, thats what the tenor drums job is to do. It has a specific name, Though I can't remember now, but thats the job of the tenors. They tie the sticks to their fingers and flip them as a visual, it's not her showing off, it's what the scotch bands do.

Exactly. The Fife and Drum Corps in Scotland do those visuals with their single toms. It has always been done like that there I can imagine.

FLOURISH! thats the name for it! But yea, thats what their job is in a pipe band, play quarter notes but make it flashy. The biggest one I can think of now, they take both hands in the air and hold them together, and spin the sticks, so it looks like their holding a wheel by the axel, and letting it spin, while playing usually quarter notes with alternate hands.

If that makes sense...