Editing Rototom (section)

== Repertoire ==
English composer [[Michael Tippett]] used a total of 38 rototoms— tuned chromatically, spanning across three octaves— in his last large-scale orchestral work, ''The Rose Lake'' (1993), based on a lake he spotted suddenly transforming from light green to translucent pink while on holiday in Senegal.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Holland |first=James |title=Practical Percussion: A Guide to the Instruments and Their Sources |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-4616-7063-6 |edition=Revised |pages=40 |oclc=681550519}}</ref> In 1979, percussionist [[William Kraft]] published ''Encounters VI'', a [[Concertino (composition)|concertino]] for rototoms and percussion quartet.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holland |first=James |date=August 1979 |title=Percussion Ensembles–Reviewed Works: Encounters VI, Concertino for RotoToms and Percussion Quartet by William Kraft; Rota for Percussion Quartet by Robert Capanna; Patterns for Percussion Op.44 by Robert Keys Clark |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/962500 |journal=[[The Musical Times]] |volume=120 |issue=1638 |pages=665–666 |doi=10.2307/962500|jstor=962500 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>