Remaining in a sitting position tends to lowers venous return, as blood pools in the veins of the legs. In a person who is at rest, about half of the circulatory blood will be present in the veins, which can cause real problems when that pooled blood tries to return up to the heart.
Vic Firth. Everett Joseph Vic Firth (June 2, 1930 â July 26, 2015) was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.
A chromatic set of tuned cowbells. A pitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion : Many untuned percussion instruments, such as the snare drum, are tuned by the player, but this tuning does not relate to a particular pitch. 2  Untuned percussion instruments can and frequently do make sounds that could be used as pitched notes in an appropriate context.