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Behzad
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I think things are definitely balancing out now. something I noticed when I was in middle school and high school, the boy percussionists always got snaredrum, timpani, or bass drum. Where as, the girls always got the mallet parts, bells, xylo, etc. Actually, I went to my hometown for thanksgiving, I hadn't been in about three years. I met someone who played percussion in the All-City concert with me back in 6th grade (about ten years ago). We remembered how she always got to play bells and xylophone where as I always go to play timpani. She said she was alwasy jealous of me for being able to play these big drums, where as I was jealous because I thought I was too stupid to play the bell parts.
This could even go back to maybe women having more developed brains in their early teen years more than men? But once you get to college age, thigs balance out.
Or, maybe it has to do with their musical background even more they picked up percussion. Alot of girls who were good mallet players in middle and high school used to take piano lessons when they were little. But boys were more inclined to be playing baseball or football than playing piano. Maybe it was "too girly" for them (this is thinking in the realms of elementary school).
These impressions that I get come from my experiences in the U.S. I am sure its different in other places, just like how Nat mentioned in Japan.
~Behzad
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