Cement Mixer Truck Pan Drum

Precussion is everything.
If you can hit it, it can make a sound.

Pan drums are domed metal precussion instruments, where areas of the curved surface are distinctively marked out, enabling them to have the ability to deliver a range of sounds when struck with the hand or a soft hammer.

Cement Mixer Truck Pan Drum takes this principle and scales it up massively in size. In this case the truck's cement drum has been modified so that it now has a large number of the note defining shaped areas running around the surface of its exterior curvature.

As it contains no cement, only a fraction of the usual power is required, so a small silent motor can turn it without any difficulty.

Two platforms are provided on each side of the drum to facilitate the musicians who stand facing inwards and pound on the drum as it rotates, with either their hands or using padded mallets. Their co-ordinated beats and notes generate a variety of harmonious or chaotic outcomes. The resulting sounds are naturally enhanced and amplified by the drum's convex interior, although for even greater volumes, pic-up mikes linked to an amplifier and speakers can be activated.

Several instruments can be parked together to form an orchestra.

Backyard version takes the form of a small builder's cement mixer.