Our good friend, Bobby Lopez, has written Conversation for two tambourines, a fun duet for concert tambourines that showcases techniques (both commonplace and otherwise) often found in orchestral tambourine playing. The piece is a running dialog between the two players as they execute articulated grace notes, pianissimo rolls, thumb rolls, and a variety of articulations. Conversation brings to the forefront the complexity, control, and variety of techniques that are required to play this instrument well.
Published by Tapspace, this piece comes with a full, bound score and includes a CD-Rom containing a reference video and all individual parts available for printing.
Bobby López says
I just saw this! Thanks so much for a nice review, Neil! This piece sounds great on two contrasting Grover tambourines!