The HTPB Drumming Corps has always distinguished itself for being the most ebullient (read boisterous drunks) fellows of the band. True we always need to explain to people we are not pipers, but we are way more classier and have the most fun. Besides girls are always impressed by our skills, the speed and strength of our hands...


2008 News:
Our Bass drummer is taking a sabatical this year, fortunately we had been training an understudy who could quickly fill this spot. Still he will be sorely missed.

At the moment we have 4 Tenor drummers, whose drums have been tuned as tenor contralto, tenor alto, tenor bajo and tenor contrabajo. This allows the mid section to have a richer and fuller sound, besides making it very fun to play as an ensemble. It´s not an easy task but they are getting there and it promises to look and sound fantastic.

The snare drum count is down to 2 players, but together they have 40 years experience. There are 2 students in the pipe line, so hopefully we should have a full complement later on in the year.
Our Bass section got a little carried away with listening to the Village People.

Our instruments:
All our drums are painted black, which contrast very nicely with our green kilt tartan and white shirts and jackets.
Late in 2006, just in time for our concert, we changed our Bass Drum for a new Premier Projector Bass. The previous one had been in use since the mid 80´s! It really does sound much fuller and with greater character. The tenor drum complement of drums consist of 2 Premier Tenor Drums acquired in 1992 (the Tenor alto and Tenor bajo) plus 2 refurbished drums from the 80´s (the Tenor contrabajo and Tenor contralto). The snare drums are Premier HTS 200 acquired in 1992, yeas that is 16 years ago...) but they still sound extremely well. We´ve been planning on changing them to the new HTS 700 version, but time will tell.