Tom-tom drum
The Tomtom ( Tom - Tom or Tom ) is a cylindrical, rarely bulbous, one side or both sides frequently fur -tipped drum and is an integral part of the drum sets and instruments of marching bands.
Construction
The boiler is usually made of wood, rarely also made of plastic, even more rarely of metal or other materials. For manufacturers from several wood plies are built up. Thinner boiler, for example, four layers are provided with reinforcement rings. Different types of wood can be used. In the 1960 book boilers were common. Even tropical wood was used, such as in the high-priced Sonor Signature series. One of the currently most popular woods that are used in the Tomtom construction is maple, which provides a warm, balanced and more sustained sound that can be processed very well, and of which there are abundant resources, particularly in North America.
Fur clothing
The eardrums are with hoops of metal, rare wood, clamped and can be - within certain limits - tonally correct and adjust the level of tightness to the preferred style of music. The typical sound of the tom-toms can generally be described as center-weighted. Until the 1940s it was common, the resonance heads - to nail to the respective boiler - at the time of natural heads. Thus, these were not tunable.
Types of toms
A drum has, depending on the musical style and the ideas of the drummer, any number of toms. In today's standard construction, it is usually three toms of different sizes and Tomversionen.
On drum set, a distinction:
- Toms, which are built with a bracket on either a Tomgelenk on the bass drum, or a separate Tom Stands. From the 1990s it became fashionable with systems that have been largely applied to the clamping rings, something free schwinged to fix these toms. The goal was to make into any more holes in the boiler and to prevent as many contacts of materials (wood, metal) with each other.
- Under rack toms one understands rack toms, which are secured either fixed or free-swinging on a rack that takes the place of Tom Mounts, cymbal stands and other hardware. One hand this has the advantage of saving space, on the other hand, since the positioning of the parts are fixed during assembly and disassembly, which eliminates the need for re-setting for large sets. In addition, this, especially with large drums, imply a significant weight savings in transportation. So are located on a rack also Beck holding arms on which the tanks are attached.
- Concert toms, which are not provided with resonance skins, have no lugs at the bottom, there were ergo also not provided with bearing edges.
- Standtoms ( engl. floor toms ), standing on feet that are adjustable in height.
- In addition, there are rototoms. These do not have a boiler and are voted on a rack, with which they are connected and secured.
The industry dimensions for rack toms are 6 to 16 inches, for floor toms 14 to 18 inches in diameter. There are several differences in the depth dimension.