Timpani

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Timpani in a drum room
A drum floor with 2 phantoms on a connecting house
Drum floor with drum operation

Timpani or scale set refers to the equipment of student associations that is required for timpani or for striking a scale .

use

The most part of protective equipment existing Paukzeug is on the Paukboden stored or in a Paukschrank or Paukraum and in a Paukkiste / Mensurkiste to Mensurtag transported to the Mensurboden. Each connection is responsible for its own drum kit; some items may also be provided by the weapon ring .

Depending on the fencing comment , different scale equipment may be required. Often the use of the drum kit is also regulated here. Everyone involved in a measure has to put on different items of equipment or to carry them with them during the game. During the timpani to prepare a measure, utensils with less protective effect are sometimes put on. During the measure, the drum kit can be straightened and repaired in a break from the bandage .

Paukant

A timpani with goggles, ruff, chain mail, length cuff, length glove and length stick

Only when cramming:

second

A second in gear
  • Second bat , basket bat in the colors of the compound, with blunt blade
  • Second helmet, a special pauk helmet
  • Secondary collar, ruff / neck bandage
  • Second plastron with groin protector, partially separate back protector
  • Second cuff with scaling glove

Testant

Drag fox

  • Neck band / ruff
  • Timpani glove
  • Timpani helmet (not common)

Secretary / clerk

  • Scale book / Paukbuch or scale cards

More impartial

  • Weapon ring statutes / paucity comment or fencing comment

Pulmonary doctor

The tympanic doctor with a patch kit while patching
  • Doctor's case with medical equipment

Individual items

Bandages

The cervical collar protects the carotid arteries and prevents fatal scaling accidents. The collar is usually made of several layers of long, thin napkins made of reinforced silk and / or leather ( Mensurkrawatte ) and possibly in addition a substance byrnie . It ends with a stiff, wide band of sturdy leather , which is fastened in the neck with buckles , or a chain tube . There is also a neck bandage or collar in a thin or thick design.

Gloves

The scale glove and the timpani glove are both made of thicker leather and serve to protect the hands. The scaling glove is additionally reinforced with metal inserts. The chain glove is worn by the testant to protect against cuts.

Helmets

See: Paukhelm . The second wears a second helmet .

leather

Student with goose leather after the scale length (1896)

Various protective leather used for protection against hits, so there are among others ears leather , Heart leather , cheeks leather and Parotisleder . For covering still unhealed scars are being thrown leather set.

Upper body protection

A paukplastron is a padded upper body protection. In the scaling it is replaced by the chain mail and the Kevlar vest . For the second there is a special second plastron , some with separate back protection.

Goggles

See: Paukbrille .

Logs

Scale card as a record of the game

A Mensurbuch / crammer or Mensurkarten used to document the game. As a rule, the names and connections of the participants, the type of game, the number of courses, place and date as well as the number of hits, needles and monita are entered in such a scale log . Early nineteenth-century timpani books are scientifically interesting, as they can be used to reconstruct the lengths of well-known personalities.

Gauntlets

Pauk- and Mensurstulp are gauntlets and serve to ward off blows. Some of them are sewn together with a glove, or the cuff and glove are connected to one another with a fastener.

Groin guard

A groin guard is a padded lower body protection, which is often provided with the colors or the circle of the connection for the second as a second apron .

weapons

The student fencing weapons used today are mainly basket rackets , for the scale rackets as scaling rackets in the colors of the connection, and bell sticks and, especially in Pennal fencing, sabers . The Prague plempe was also used in Prague in the past . The second uses a racket to collapse.

Rigging

In the German-Baltic student associations , the drum kit is called rigging, in Estonian Takelaaz.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ As for example in a Prager Pauk-Comment from 1875.
  2. ^ Acta Historica Tallinnensia 2004