Meanwhile everything has arrived and after a few experiments, which caused many frustrations (I will explain that later) I have developed a fully functional set-up. It looks like this:
From the left you see:
Gretsch 10x6" Ash Snare
Meinl 10" Candela Splash
Remo 22" Buffalo drum
Meinl 8" Byzance Jazz Splash
Why I want to play a drumset with my feet? The last month I enjoyed to exercise songs of "The Who" with me playing guitar and singing at the same time. Then I got the idea to accompany myself with my feet. I started first with an electric setup: Epiphone Casino, Fender Princeton Reverb, Strymon El Capistan, TC Helicon Voice Harmonizer (great for singing choir), Roland Midi-Pedal and a Clavia Nord Micromodular. I had created patches on the Micromodular with electronic drum-sounds and some synthesizers for "Baba O'Riley". While everything else worked nicely I was never happy with the drums, because it sounded static and though I programmed the hell out of this little box, it was never possible to create something really dynamic. I was also bored by connecting hundreds of cables every day, because I can not leave the gear build up. I have to remove everything every day.
So during our last vacation I exercised with the little and cheap Yamaha Guitalele, a really funny and great guitar, which sounds a Fourth higher than a normal guitar. It's pretty small and leight-weight and I had lots of fun playing it. After this experience I thought about, how I could accompany this little gem with some acoustic percussion. And I wanted something close to a drumset. The only acoustic foot-percussion on the market, which emulates a drum-set, is offered by Farmer footdrums, an american little company. Though the examples at youtube are sounding very impressive and it looks like a really professional instrument I resisted, because it's too expensive for me. Additionally I would have to order it from Germany. I have found no alternative for the Farmer product, so then I thought how to realise something close to this with "normal" drum-parts.
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