NATC Phoenix Equipment Inventory

Please fill out counts for what equipment that your group has available to be used at NATC Phoenix. If your counts change at a later date, please contact an organizer.

If some equipment that you are lending is personally owned within your group, it may be easier to combine it with your groups' equipment for the purpose of the conference, however you may also fill out a separate form for personal equipment.

Please see descriptions at the end of this form for definitions of the terminology used by the conference.

This form is for planning purposes and does not constitute a final agreement to bring drums. This will be worked out with each group providing drums. The TCA will provide labeling information and materials to be affixed prior to the conference.

We are asking that each team have a designated contact on the ground in Phoenix that will be avaialbe to help with check-in and check-out of drums. This will significantly help our equipment team. This information can be entered now or updated later, but please be prepared to have someone from your team with these responsibilities on the ground.

Definitions and Synonomy

Each group may have their own ways to name styles of drumming and equipment, which is perfectly valid. For communicating across groups, these terms are defined for NATC's purposes. This it to avoid potentially confusing terms, such as upright, which is sometimes used to mean the drum is facing up (tateuchi) and sometimes used to mean the drum is elevated (yokouchi). Similarly terms like "x-stand," which refers to a construction method, may be ambigous to how it is played.

 

NATC Terms for Communicating about Taiko Equipment:

Tate-uchi: Vertical Hitting Style

Naname-uchi: Slant Hitting Style

Yoko-uchi: Horizontal Hitting Style

Ne-uchi: Laying Hitting Style

 

Beta Stand: A flat stand that holds a drum to be played tate-uchi

Naname Stand: A stand that holds a drum at an angle to be played naname-uchi. Also known as a Sukeroku stand, after the originators in Oedo Sukeroku.

Hachijo Stand: A stand that holds a drum horizontally to be played Yoko-uchi from a standing position. Named after the style of drumming from Hachijo-jima.

Miyake Stand: A stand that holds a drum horizontally to be played Yoko-uchi from a low squatting position. Named after the style of drumming from Miyake-jima. 

Yatai Stand: A stand that holds a drum to be played Ne-uchi, with the player seated on the floor facing the drum.

Odaiko Stand: A stand that holds an odaiko. For our purposes, please count stands as such if they hold an odaiko horizontally, to be played facing the drum head(s). For stands that hold Odaiko to be played tate-uchi, please count as beta. Similarly, please count ne-uchi stands that hold odaiko-sized drums as yatai stands.

 

Hiradaiko: A flat drum, in which the distance between the two heads is shorter than the diameter of the heads. Since these are typically less common within groups and don't often have interchangable stands, please count a hiradaiko and its stand as a single unit, not to be separated.

Gomidaiko: A drum made out of a trash can or bucket, often with tape as a hitting membrane. Please only count non-traditional drums in this manner. Taiko that have damaged heads or that are mainly used for practice should be counted as the type of taiko they represent.

 

Synonomy

Dai = Stand

Chudaiko = Nagado = Josuke