Sunday, March 26, 2006

Yet another Drumipedia edit

For this edit, I decided to change up the descriptive paragraph on the drum and its head. The previous edit made little sense {unless you are seven}. I added a quick link to the Caribbean steel drum wiki and fixed a few grammer mistakes.

I also see that on the past hisory, there are now multiple editors showing up, but I am still trying to figure out if they are re-editing my work, or just the work others are taking out.

The paragraph I changed up now reads as follows...
Drums with cylindrical shells can be open at one end (as in the timbales) or can have two drum heads. Single headed drums normally consist of a skin or other membrane, called a head, which is stretched over an enclosed space or over one of the ends of a hollow vessel. Drums with two heads covering both ends of a tubular shell often have a small hole halfway between the two drumheads; the shell forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. Exceptions include the African slit drum, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, and the Caribbean steel drum, made from a metal barrel. Drums are usually played by the hands or by one or two sticks. In some non-Western cultures drums have a symbolic function and are often used in religious ceremonies. The sound of a drum depends on several variables including shell shape, size, thickness of shell, materials of the shell, type of drumhead, tension of the drumhead, position of the drum, location, and how it is struck. They are sometimes used in sending signals. The talking drums of Africa can imitate the inflections and pitch variations of a spoken language and are used for communicating over great distances.

So that makes three edits on the drum and four edits for the semester and with my work finally caught up, I can now get back to what really matters...

1 comment:

Ali said...

I agree that it is hard to tell exactly what others have edited on the page.. if you figure out an easy way to tell, let me know :)