Maker
Black Swamp Percussion
Michigan maker of orchestral percussion
Black Swamp builds concert snare drums, tambourines, triangles, and accessories to orchestral tolerances, with tambourines specified by jingle alloy and snare drums by the number and material of the strand sets. The instruments are standard in American orchestras and conservatories.
Models
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Black Swamp Multisonic Concert Snare
Concert percussion · United States
The Multisonic carries four separate snare units — cable, coil, gut, and steel — each engaged independently, so a player can change the drum's character mid-piece rather than changing drums. It is a fixture in American orchestras.
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Black Swamp Triangle
Concert percussion · United States
A triangle's pitch spread and sustain come from its bar alloy and cross-section, and Black Swamp sells them as distinct instruments rather than as one accessory.
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Black Swamp SoundArt Concert Snare
Concert percussion · United States
SoundArt is the Multisonic's simpler sibling: one strand set, a maple or steel shell, and the same bearing edges and hardware, at a price a conservatory can buy in numbers.
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Black Swamp Concert Tambourine
Concert percussion · United States
Black Swamp's tambourines are catalogued by the metal of the jingles — German silver, beryllium copper, chromium, and combinations — because that, more than the shell, determines whether the instrument sits in an orchestral texture or on top of it.
Categories
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Concert Percussion
The percussion section's non-pitched instruments: concert snare and bass drums, tambourines, triangles, crotales, tubular bells, and the stands that hold them.
Representative model
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Black Swamp Multisonic Concert Snare
Concert percussion · United States
The Multisonic carries four separate snare units — cable, coil, gut, and steel — each engaged independently, so a player can change the drum's character mid-piece rather than changing drums. It is a fixture in American orchestras.