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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[File:Drum Board (Cyberamic) - An original Band Board alongside other PTT animatronics.avif|frameless|300px]]
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Type
| Animatronics
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Start date
| 1979
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Tags
| Pizza Time Theatre
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Contributors
| sudo-trans-pony, BurgersNuggs445
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The '''''Drum Board''''' (also known as the '''''Band Board''''') is a series of pneumatic controlled percussion instruments placed onto two boards used in ''Pizza Time Theatre'' restaurants. Each pneumatic movement, in which there were 11, would strike its instrument upon activation, meant to bring real instruments to the entertainment experience. Similar to the Clapper Board (Cyberamic)|Clapper Board, [[Flag Wavers (Cyberamic)]], and [[Singing Flowers (Cyberamic)]], it was an effect outside of the main stage, allowing the performance to extend outside the bounds of it.

== History ==

The initial inspiration for the Drum Board would be between 1970-1971, when Nolan Bushnell would visit the local ''Pizza & Pipes'' restaurant in Redwood City for inspiration on his burgeoning arcade restaurant concept. While the visit mainly inspired the need to have entertainment alongside the food, the mechanically operated instruments would later make their way into the first two [[Pizza Time Theatre]] stores on [[San Jose, CA (370 S Winchester Blvd)]] and [[San Jose, CA (1371 Kooser Rd)]]. Then dubbed the [[Winchester Pizza Time Orchestra (Animatronic)]], it was seen on a shelf beside Jasper T. Jowls amongst random objects.(1) When the Cyberamics Balcony Stage was created, the showroom dropped its filled shelves and placed the Drum Board on a raised platform near Pasqually, opposite to the Warblettes''.''

=== Usage in Showtapes ===

The Drum Board was highly used in the initial few years of showtapes, being used in almost every single song. This lessened over each tape, reducing from the main instrumental to just additional sound effects. The last showtape to produce new Drum Board programming was Madame Oink III - 'Tunnel of Love'. Skit-Oink 3 TunnelLove WXMAS was a rerelease of Oink III that included a new Christmas segment. This segment notably has no Drum Board usage, making it the first segment to stop new programming for the board. Due to re-use of older segments, the last showtape to ever use the Drum Board was [[Madame Oink IV - The Tune Machine]].

== Internals ==

=== Movement Rosetta ===

The Drum Board was part of Character Card 6, which was dedicated to both it and the [[Applause Board (Cyberamic)]]. Later on in the ''R12'' stage format, this would be replaced with A/V features.

{| class="wikitable"
! Total Bit !! Card Bit !! Bit Name (C&R) !! Bit Name (R12)
|-
| 81 || 0 || Cowbell || Audsel 1
|-
| 82 || 1 || Large Block || Audsel 2
|-
| 83 || 2 || Medium Block || -
|-
| 84 || 3 || Tambourine || -
|-
| 85 || 4 || Bass || -
|-
| 86 || 5 || Snare || -
|-
| 87 || 6 || Triangle || -
|-
| 88 || 7 || Cymbal || Video Select 1
|-
| 89 || 8 || Large Pan || Video Select 2
|-
| 90 || 9 || Medium Pan || -
|-
| 91 || 10 || Small Pan || -
|-
| 92 || 11 || Clapper Razzle || -
|-
| 93 || 12 || Clap || -
|-
| 94 || 13 || Elephant || -
|-
| 95 || 14 || - || -
|-
| 96 || 15 || - || -
|}

== Instruments ==

The uppermost level were the drums and cymbal.

* Cymbal
* Bass Drum
* Snare Drum

And the bottom level held auxiliary instruments and pans.

* Large Pan
* Medium Pan
* Small Pan
* Cow Bell
* Large Block
* Small Block
* Tambourine
* Triangle

== Source citations ==
* [https://www.si.edu/media/NMAH/NMAH-AC1498_Transcript_NolanBushnell.pdf https://www.si.edu/media/NMAH/NMAH-AC1498_Transcript_NolanBushnell.pdf]

== Import provenance ==
Imported from [https://github.com/The64thGamer/cheeseepedia/tree/274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854 Cheese-E-Pedia] at source revision <code>274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854</code>. Source material is provided under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0].

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