Musings of a mechanically minded musician.
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This image is from the original American Drum Manufacturing Company’s website, recreated and labeled here for your convenience. If you’d like to learn more about the parts, names, and how they work together, check out this video:
Thanks so much for your great content! One of my school customers has a set of Ludwig Ringer timpani. Each drum has an assembly of two small casters mounted to a plate from which extends a long steel bar arm. The arm can pivot from underneath the drum and flip the plate over. Is that some sort of “tow bar”? It seems to me that when it is flipped out from under the drum AND the casters are mounted correctly (on these, the casters are touching the floor when the bar and plate are stowed under the drum) it might jack the drum up so the stage spikes are not on the floor. Do you have any photos of how this mechanism is supposed to look? If its use is not what I think it is, can you explain what it’s for?
Hi Tom, I’ll email you.
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