<\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\nLast fall, when Heather Panton joined, there were no longer any tenor drummers in the pipe band though there had been previously. When she saw video of flourishing tenor drumming – in which drum sticks are swung around between beats – Panton knew that’s what she wanted to do.<\/p>\n
“The style of tenor drumming has changed since the last time the band had a tenor drummer,” said Panton.<\/p>\n
Panton encouraged her best friend Sondra Van Dolder to join the band. “We just sort of took to it,” laughed Van Dolder. “We’re naturals.”<\/p>\n
“Because of what we do, it looks much better when there’s more than one person doing it,” added Panton. “It’s a visual representation of the music. We always have people afterward saying, ‘you were amazing, that was so cool.'”<\/p>\n
Look for Panton and Van Dolder at right in the video below.<\/em><\/p>\n