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tom toms

A cylindrical drum with no snare, commonly found in modern drum kits.

As major drum manufacturers began to offer tunable tom-toms with hoops and tuning lugs, a 12 in (30 cm) drum 8 inches (20 cm) deep became standard, mounted on the left side of the bass drum. Later a 16 in (41 cm) drum (16 inches deep) mounted on three legs (a floor tom) was added. Finally, a second drum was mounted on the right of the bass drum, a 13 in (33 cm) diameter drum 9 inches (23 cm) deep. Together with a 14 in (36 cm) snare drum and a bass drum of varying size, these three made up the standard kit of five drums for most of the second half of the 20th century.

Later, the mounted tom-toms, known as hanging toms or rack toms, were deepened by one inch each, these sizes being called power toms.


categories:
drums

sub-types:
floor tom
artisttitlemusicianinstrumentyear
Weather Report Heavy Weather Alex Acuña tom toms 1977
Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball Daryl Johnson tom toms 1995
Cassandra Wilson New Moon Daughter Dougie Bowne tom toms 1995
Mickey Hart & Planet Drum Supralingua Mickey Hart tom toms 1998
(various) The Wicker Man Michael Frye tom toms 2002
Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home Joseph Gramley tom toms 2016
 
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