What have you got that's one of a kind?

[RobYob]

I have the setlist from a prodigy gig that was thrown into the crowd with accompanying electrical tape that stuck it to the stage monitor. Ive got the ticket from the gig as well. Keep meaning to get it framed.

It’s an omen

Not a firestarter.

[RobYob]

It'd be fascinating to dive down the rabbit of what particularly combination of spectral characteristics like resonance and damping gives the subjective "warm" "dry" impressions.

There are a LOT of variables. As I recently discovered, though thankfully not to my expense, you can't even say any given wood is the same, even how its dried out hugely impacts the sound. (Mate had a very expensive snare drum just crack like twigs). It at least goes some way to justifying to myself why I own the 22 I do, and will buy more yet. Even though to most people they all just go crack or splat.

Yeah there's shedloads of materials science in there. Cellulose based composite is pretty amazing stuff, and it grows on trees

Imagine a metal drum casing grown the same way as a turbine blade with a single homogeneous crystal. *leaps gleefully into another distracting rabbit hole*

Of course you can play 22 drums at once.

[KiwiDave]

A reasonable understanding of material science is great - you wouldn't believe some of the shit that gets put in marketing which is total hokum.

[RobYob]

A reasonable understanding of material science is great - you wouldn't believe some of the shit that gets put in marketing which is total hokum.

As soon as you introduce subjectivity it can be exploited with all sorts of cognitive bias'. That hokum is in some cases extremely well thought out and researched.

Let alone the fact that there is genuinely significant variability in both physical perception of things and neurological processing.

Famous example of average perception being altered by environment&culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller-Lyer_illusion