Concert tom

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Concert toms or rock toms are hanging toms that are open at the bottom and have no resonance head. Neither lugs nor hoops are attached to the lower side of the boiler. Also there, unlike the upper side on which the batter head rests, no burrs are made. The foil coating is flush with the boiler edges.

Concert toms were particularly widespread from the 1970s to the early 1980s and were made by almost all manufacturers. They were mostly used on larger drums with many toms. They were available in sizes 6 "to 16" in configurations with four, six, or eight concert toms. The stand toms and bass drums , however, were usually provided with resonance heads. It was also very common to supplement sets with concert toms, for example sizes 8 "and 10".

There are advantages in terms of transport, as the shells can be better nested due to the lack of resonance lugs and hoops.

Concert toms are rarely found these days. A well-known drummer who used concert toms is Phil Collins .

Even so, some major drum manufacturers such as Yamaha still offer concert toms for sale today .

Individual evidence

  1. Stephen Douglas Burton: Orchestration. Prentice-Hall, Englewood (NJ) 1982, ISBN 0-13-639500-7 , p. 208
  2. Ludwig-Drums.com: Concert Toms. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ludwig-drums.com
  3. Yamaha Concert Toms