Gruv-X Percussion Used X-Click Mundo cascara Maple / Copper GRVMN-NS

Katia de Peyer $ 53.10
The Gruv-X Mundo This used shop display model has a small dent – see pix w/ tape/arrow – at the bottom of the interior in the copper. The copper ply has also lifted very slightly near the dent.  This was probably dropped at one time as these are otherwise fairly indestructable. It is sold as-is and still plays/sounds great. World Percussion Accessory Mundo means World in Spanish Mundo is an instrument that is meant to be the sound of a wooden shell and the side of a metal Timbale, mixed together. The most common rhythm in Afro-Cuban music called, the Cascara is a Palito rhythm (with small sticks, usually played on the side of the Female (Larger) timbale. When Timbales are not available, drummers often play this on the side of their floor tom. Of course, this lends itself to finish damage on the drum and not quite achieving the Metallic tone of the Timbale shell. Through extensive compositional analysis and prototype testing by Gruv-X designers and artists, the combination of American Rock Maple and Copper, was used to achieve this unique tone. The Mundo mounts with the proprietary Gruv-X, Mono-Mounts made famous by its predecessor the X-Click and fits on every sized drum, from a 10 in. 6-lug to an 18 in. 8-lug. It has a Tone hole in the upper half of the body that again, through much testing, was found to lower the pitch closer to that of the large Timbale shell. This Instrument is played on the side of the body with the stick, creating a new, 1/2 wood and 1/2 metal sound and protecting your floor tom’s finish. Dale’s Drum Shop is an authorized Gruv-X dealer. Most of our used gear in our Harrisburg, PA Drum Shop is not online.  Contact us anytime with your questions about the gear we offer.  A Drummer will respond to you promptly.
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Contents

1. My Dance, Our Symphony
2. New York
3. 16 Langford Place
4. The Chamber Music Society
5. Musical Roots
6. Horovitz, Milhaud, and Mozart
7. Life in New York
8. Musical Colleagues and Friends
9. Challenges
10. Carnegie Concert Hall and the World of Musicians
11. Porto Vecchio
12. A Music Festival at Sea
13. The Assisi Festa Musica Pro
14. Castello di Duino and a Turning Point
15. The Washington Sinfonia
16. More Musical Colleagues and Collaborations
17. Sweet and Sour
18. Master Teacher, Master Passeur

Acknowledgements
Newspaper, Text and Photographic Credits
Appendix A: Gervase de Peyer, Principal Clarinet
Appendix B: Select Recordings
Appendix C: An Extract from Portraits 1: Gervase de Peyer
Select Bibliography
About the Author

About the Author

Katia de Peyer’s first book Dancing with MySelf, Sensuous Exercises for Body, Mind and Spirit (Nucleus Publications, 1991; La Source Press, 2026) introduced her method of inner-centering through movement, hailed by Diane von Furstenberg as a whole new attitude about exercising. Her second book Enjoy Your Healing Power (La Source Press, 2025) is an intuitive, helpful guide for developing our healing power.  A ballet dancer born in Paris who lived in Spain to further her studies in flamenco, Katia moved to New York in the late sixties to start a successful career as a personal trainer. There she met the virtuoso clarinettist Gervase de Peyer in 1976.  She and Gervase married in 1980 and lived for two decades in the US and then in the UK until Gervase’s death in 2017.  Katia continues her work as a writer and healer in London and New York.

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