Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Okay, so I was in the shower and some Star Wars music crawled into my head, which got me thinking how much I'd love to have a copy of the orchestral score for A New Hope, which got me thinking about orchestral music in general, which made me think of tympani, which reminded me how [expletive]ing fun tympani are to play, which got me humming tunes that would be cool to play/hear on tympani ...

And all of a sudden I want to play "Rince Briotanach"[*] on tympani. Or, since you almost never see eight kettledrums in one place, play the bottom four notes on tympani and give the rest to shawms or bombards or maybe even brass. (There's a pretty obvious call-and-response bult into the melody; I'd like to throw in a less obvious treatment on one of the repetitions as well.)

But man, it'd be so cool to have two tympanists, each with four drums, on opposite ends of a stage, with the whole melody covered with BoomBoomBoomBoomBoBoBoooms, and just let other instruments decorate the middle. Maybe the tympani, two fiddles, a cello, and a xylophone.

I dare anyone to try not to dance to that!

(Uh ... any of y'all got an orchestra with that many tympani that you can convince to perform this for me? 'Cause those things are bloody expensive and my Roto-Toms are just not going to get it done.)

[*] By Clannad, if I'm not mistaken.