FINAL FINISHES ON THE FORTRESS

Eight months.

Eight months ago I embarked on this challenge of assembling and constructing a masterpiece: an arsenal of percussion products professionally placed around a plausible perimeter for my personal pleasure.  Provided with a plethora of perspicacity partnered with plenty of perspiration, I proceeded to put on paper the plans for a private palace of percussive perfection, procuring a place for practically every piece I had played previously as well as pondering the possible proliferation of my preceding penumbra.

Pleased with my progress I pressed onward, painstakingly particularizing each part of this percussion perdition, periodically posting pertinent pictures and paragraphs of pageantry and pomposity promoting my perfervid performance for persons to peruse, a preferred prospect to the pestilent and pestiferous proclamations that permeated the previous posts on my parent publication.

Though primarily producing perturbation in people, these posts persuasively presented my pertinacity in pursuing pragmatic percussion placement.  Despite pessimism from pantywaist pundits who pooh-poohed persnickety perjoratives at my prized project, I plowed on persistently, perceiving I could possibly piecemeal this pitiful pipedream into a probable production.

Now prior to protracting this peroration into perpetuity, please permit me to proudly present my penultimate post pertaining to my pièce de résistance.

THE FORTRESS:

GUNS AND CANNONS
Tama Swingstar/Imperialstar Vintage Red

(1.) 18 x 22"  extra-deep Bass Drum
(2.) 5-1/2 x 14" Wood Snare
(3.) 7 x 8" Tom
(4.) 8 x 10" Tom
(5.) 8 x 12" Tom
(6.) 10 x 13" Tom
(7.) 14 x 14" Floor Tom
(8.) 16 x 16" Floor Tom

AERIAL ASSAULT SHIELDS
Sabian "HH" Hand-Hammered (except where noted)

(A.) 13" Regular Hi-hats
(B.) 18" Thin Crash
(C.) 16" Medium Thin Crash
(D.) 8" Splash
(E.) 20" Zildjian Ride (classic "A")
(F.) 15" Medium Thin Crash (on top)
(G.) 12" Wuhan China
(H.) 16" China
(J.) 16" Extra Thin Crash (on top)
(K.) 10" China Kang

SPECIAL OPS WEAPONRY:
(aa.) Crotale (Zildjian "C")
(bb.) Tambourine (LP)
(cc.) Cowbells (Gon-Bops "Cha-Go" and LP "Mambo")
(dd.) Bar Chimes (Treeworks aluminum - small set)
(ee.) Bar Chimes (Treeworks aluminum - large set)
(ff.) Mini-Timbale (Tama "Mini-Tymp")
(gg.) Left-Side Percussion Tower (See Details below)

LEFT-SIDE PERCUSSION TOWER:
(hh.) Bar Chimes (SpectraSound hollow brass)
(jj.) Windchimes (Stannard)
(kk.) Chinese Bell Tree (LP 14-bell)
(ll.) Ice Bell (LP 7")
(mm.) Jam Bells (LP high pitch / low pitch)
(nn.) Jam Blocks (LP low pitch "Guiro" / medium / high / piccolo)
(oo.) Triangles (Treeworks)
(pp.) Finger Cymbal (Treeworks)