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The unit's rope drums, as with those of the rest of the U.S. Army Band, are manufactured by the Cooperman Drum Company and are painted with an emblem known as "the Grand Republic," which was designed by Gus Moeller. [8] The drum heads are made of kevlar. [7]
Kevlar (para-aramid) [2] is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, [3] [2] [4] the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.
Early multi-tenors had shells with a flat bottom. These drums sounded a lot like timpani, so they were called timp-toms. As drum sizes got smaller, more drums began to be added to multi-tenor configurations. The largest sets of multi-tenors had 7 drums and were carried by both the 1977 and 1992 Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps tenor lines.
Completing the new Spiritualized line-up were guitarist Doggen Foster of Brain Donor and the Julian Cope band, Richard Warren and drummer Kevin 'Kevlar' Bales, who is also a member of Brain Donor. [3] Jonny Aitken stepped in on drums for the recording of Amazing Grace while Kevin Bales was recovering from
The first song revealed from Encyclopedia, "Magic Mountain," surprised music critics and fans alike: it was described as "stirring and unexpected", and as "a definite departure from The Drums' earlier formulas," [16] The song caused considerable debate amongst fans about the new direction the band were getting at. [17]
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is an instrumental band whose sound is based heavily on instrumental rock and electronic music, funk, jazz, drum and bass, psychedelia, and hip hop, originating in Georgia, United States.
Orange County Drum and Percussion (abbreviated OCDP) is an American custom drum manufacturer located in Orange County, California.The company began as a retail drum shop and eventually started custom-building drums for several influential drummers in the 1990s, most notably Chad Sexton of 311, Travis Barker of blink-182, even releasing a custom shell pack, and Adrian Young of No Doubt, who ...
Early drum kits consisted of a bass drum, a snare, a stand, a cymbal, and sometimes a small tom-tom. The company grew to two factories, ending up in West London's Park Royal. By 1938 they were also producing brass instruments, as well as supplying drums to the armed forces. The company even built a guitar called "Premier Vox", in the early 1930s.