Pictured directly above, a Ron Vaughn, compound-jingle FireBird Tambourine with clean-mounted natural skin: Natural Skins, Clean Mounted All Ron Vaughn natural skin tambourine skins are clean-mounted without the use of tacks, nails, compression bands, or other mounting hardware. This allows the instrument's skin to have a 100% clean, smooth, tactile performance surface. This 'clean-mounting' also... Continue Reading →
See us at #pasic25!
Ron Vaughn Percussion: mallets, instruments and equipment will be available at Steve Weiss Music booths during #pasic'25 in Indianapolis. See you there!
Ron Vaughn Fixed-Pitch, Voiced & Tuned Signature Wood Blocks, Temple Blocks, & Log Drums:
In this blog about: Ron Vaughn fixed pitch instruments Fixed Pitch percussion instrument overview Care, use, and storage of these fixed pitch instruments Effects of shipping them domestically and world wide Pitches and pitch accuracy of fixed pitch percussion instruments Effects of different instrument mounting methods and equipment on the voice and pitch heard Effects... Continue Reading →
Ron Vaughn ‘FireBird Tambourine’
The Ron Vaughn FireBird Tambourine, a very different and remarkable tambourine.
Time with Elvin Jones
My path and Elvin's came together in the 1970s in the beautiful country of Venezuela
J.S. Bach and a night visitor, Josef Gingold
One night, late . . . standing in the doorway was Josef Gingold, one of the world’s truly great violinists.