ENDORSEMENTS

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Singer composer Diane Arkenstone brought one of her custom MILLTONE instruments to Radio station KSBR Jazz FM 88.5 where she gave an on air interview and played her drum live. The MILLTONE was a big hit with fans as well as Morning Breeze Music Director and host Donna Jo Thorton.

Diane in the KSBR studio on August 14, 2011 playing her custom Red MILLTONE live on the Morning Breeze radio show. Hopefully we will have a link to the interview and her playing posted too. In the meantime visit her website and listen to some of her wonderful compositions. Her many great albums and songs are available for download on Amazon.

Diane shows off her custom Blue MILLTONE instrument.

Diane says;

“Thank you Larry, for the 2 drums you made for me, they are the most beautiful sounding metal drums on the planet!”

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I just wanted to thank you for this beautiful instrument !!
I am very satisfied with it and find it as an excellent instrument to play and express feelings …

Spent hours playing just to relax to the sweet sound that came out of it, such a relief !

Here is a little example of what I’ve been working on…

thanks a lot,
Jamil khoury

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Dear Larry,
My name is Ethan Lindblom and I just wanted to say that your drums are absolutely beautiful! I am in a trio percussion ensemble called Drum Stories and we wanted to find a way to have metallic melodies. The Milltone drums could not be any more perfect! They just scream perfection in every aspect! Amazing tone, gorgeous designs, and amazing recording quality! We love our Milltone so much that as soon as we played it for the first time we recorded our first composition with it the next day. I just wanted to let you know that your contributions to the percussion community have been astounding! Just unbelievable quality, really fantastic instruments. We currently have three compositions that feature our Milltone and we couldn’t be happier. As of today, we have all three of these tunes on our Youtube page and I encourage you to listen to them! We plan on recording a new tune very soon!

Thank you again for the drum! Here’s the URL for our Youtube page.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDrumStories?feature=mhee

The names of our tunes with our Milltone is “Steel Bongoes,”, “Wood and Steel,” and “Into the Mist.” “Into the Mist” is our latest song and is by far our favorite. It’s also the featured video on the page. We really hope you enjoy our music!

- Ethan Lindblom

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(I received this wonderful email from composer Mark Bennett in New York City. I thought I would share it here.)

Dear Larry:

We open The Tempest  tonight!     Your very featured silvery Milltones glisten under the lights and sound magnificent as they weave their tones throughout The Tempest.  They have become a kind of signature sound for the production and I will gather extra programs for you as you are personally credited therein.

Thank you for such amazing instruments.    They will now sound around the world (returning back to me after the show completes it’s tour), culminating their journey next august,  filling the air in Epidaurus, Greece, at the oldest functioning theater in the world.   I thing it’s a sound the gods would have adored.   I know we do.

So Happy Opening and again, MANY thanks for these beautiful drums;  they are the underscoring sound of our lovers and the charms Ariel casts throughout the night, and accompany two of his songs  (in our production Ariel is played by a man):  ”Come into These Yellow Sands” and “Awake, Awake!”

Your instruments are luminous and unworldly.  In short, Perfect!

With deepest gratitude and congrats,

Mark Bennett

Click here to visit the blog about The Bridge Project.

Update 8/29/11
Dear Larry:

How are you, my friend? I am VERY happy to report that your Milltone is once again traveling around the world with the final year of the Bridge Project. Kevin Spacey in Richard the Third, directed by Sam Mendes. You can google those words and find a ton of info about it. In particular from the Old Vic Web Site:

http://www.oldvictheatre.com/

I’m thrilled to pass on to you that the Milltone has now been heard at Epidaurus, the oldest working theater in the world. a 2,300 year old ampitheater two hours south of Athens, with unbelievable acoustics. It has a capacity of 12,000 people and when we teched we worked all night as it is a national monument open to tourists during the day. SO…….As the sun rose over the mountains behind that incredible theater, your timeless sound of your drum rang out and the space we were working in vibrated with it, as if it had always been there. I don’[t go on the whole tour, but I WAS there in greece for this moment, and to experience the Milltone in this ancient and and amazing place.

Epidaurus was an ancient healing center at which this theater was originally built: people travelled weeks/months to be restored back to health there...the centering and soulful sounds of your instrument seemed in perfect harmony with everything about this site.

Here's a picture of the ampitheater at dawn that I took from behind the sound desk. It's only about 2/3 of the way up the seating.

The tour this year is incredible:
Hong Kong, Singapore, Bejjing, Sydney, Naples, Aviles, Istanbul, San Francisco, and BAM and your silver sonic masterpiece is with us all the way.

Very best,

Mark B.

This email received 4/20/2012.

Hi Larry.

I hope the year has been going well for you and yours!

Once Again the Milltone has sounded in NYC theater.

An Illiad.  Produced by the New York Theater Workshop.  A one man re-telling of Homers epic Poem  The Milltone is featured in a section titled "Achilles Shield" as the only instrument played by a double bass player for that chapter. (The rest of the production is accompanied soley by the live double bass, amplfied, acoustic, and processed.

The piece was performed in NYC, Off- Broadway, at the New York Theater Workshop this past winter and is going to be performed in La Jolla and Berkeley this summer and fall.   I credit you and the drum in the program.  The musician was very featured as he played the drum, and they were both beautifully lit.   I wish there had been a production photo of that moment, but I think the photographers didn't take one.....I have to be more on them about that when those moments come up.  The show was a critical, and audience, success.  And the Sound Design, Lights,  and the production have all been nominated for Lortel Awards.  (the Lortels don't tend to nominate "music for plays" so they basically are acknowledging the score in the sound design.  If you go to the New York Theater Workshop's website you can get more info on the production.

As I think I wrote you last summer, The Milltone ringing out at Epidaurus in the Sam Mendes/Kevin Spacey Richard III,  in the most ancient working amphitheater in the world, was a truly thrilling moment for us all.  That sound, un-amplified, in that ancient space, was absolutely magical.

All best,

Mark B.
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N. Scott Robinson

N.Scott Robinson (MILLTONE),K.S.Resmi,(Carnatic Vocal),John de Kadt (ocean drum, bodhran)

Email from N Scott Robinson  11/3/2008

“Hi Larry,

I played the drum on Friday night with another percussionist and Indian singer. Everyone loved it and many percussionists were interested.  I gave out some cards so you might hear from some:  John de Kadt, Yousif Sheronick, Ron Remondino, and others.  PAS this week.

scott”

He will be at the PAS show in Austin TX this week. I am very glad to have a MILLTONE instrument demonstrated at such a major event in such good hands. Thanks Scott!

Scott will be playing his MILLTONE as he travels around the country. Watch for him near you.

N. Scott Robinson, Playing His MILLTONE at Tamburi Mundi Festival, Germany 2009

Link to Video by N. Scott Robinson playing his MILLTONE

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Troels

The MILLTONE (aka Propanium) is one of the – if not the most beautiful – tuned percussion I have ever played. I can only encourage everybody to visit Larry – as these drums bring an entire new flavor with them.

“Your instrument is absolutely amazing and I gladly give my endorsements to these beautiful, soulful instruments you are creating.”

Troels Folmann

I am very pleased to have Troels Folmann, an award winning, very talented composer, endorse MILLTONE Drums. Troels Folmann got world wide recognition when he won multiple awards (British Academy Award, Mix Foundation / TEC Award, GDC/GANG etc) for his soundtracks for the next-generation Tomb Raider series.

Click here to visit Propanium (aka MILLTONE) demos.

Click here to visit his “Composing with overtones demo.

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Hi Larry

Many Many many thanks from Ireland I got my drum earlier today after a long wait with Irish customs and post , the sound is hypnotic as well as a million other words I could use    it really is an amazing work of art, well done for bringing these out, did you see there is a “hang” on eBay for $20,000 ?  Have a look at the drum for health part of my site, I just fixed it up a bit if you would like to link to it ? www.drumforhealth.org

Go raibh mile maith agat, that means thanks a million in Irish

John

John Barron
Fundrums Community Drumming
“Creating Unity Through Rhythm”

d Web : www.fundrums.org
d Blog: http://fundrums.blogspot.com
d Mail : john@fundrums.org
drumjohn@vodafone.ie
d Tel : 0879849585
also on myspace :
http://www.myspace.com/johnfundrums

For more information on drumcircles around Ireland or to find a facilitator in your area, send me an email or check out : http://irishdrum.ning.com

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”

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hi Larry,

just wanted to tell you that everything worked fine at the foreign customs. the instrument is great. i fell in love with it for the second time, now that i hold it in my hands. the sound is awesome and i can`t wait to record it and play it live. and by the way, it looks absolutely beautiful. thank you, yours

http://www.myspace.com/martinpollok

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I got my MILLTONE!!! Wow!!! Beyond words….. Thank you…

Thank you!!!  Craig: Tone-Magic

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