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Snare drum

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A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. [1]

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Adjutant's Call

Adjutant's Call is a bugle call indicating that the adjutant is about to form the guard, battalion, or regiment.

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Basel

Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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BoPET

BoPET (biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate) is a polyester film made from stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is used for its high tensile strength, chemical and dimensional stability, transparency, reflectivity, gas and aroma barrier properties, and electrical insulation.

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Brady Drum Company

Brady Drum Company was an Australian manufacturing company who specialised in handcrafted drums since 1980.

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Bugle

The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices.

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Bugle call

A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship.

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Calfskin

Calfskin or calf leather is a leather or membrane produced from the hide of a calf, or juvenile domestic cattle.

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Claves

Claves are a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about, thick dowels. Traditionally they are made of wood, typically rosewood, ebony or grenadilla. In modern times they are also made of fibreglass or plastics. When struck they produce a bright clicking noise. Claves are sometimes hollow and carved in the middle to amplify the sound.

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual components.

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Compression molding

Compression Molding is a method of molding in which the moulding material, generally preheated, is first placed in an open, heated mould cavity.

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Double-drumming

Double-drumming is a percussion technique, developed around 1900,Hessler, Claus and Famularo, Dom (2008).

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Drum cadence

In music, a drum cadence or street beat is a work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band (see marching percussion).

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum roll

A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique the percussionist employs to produce, on a percussion instrument, a sustained sound, "over the value of the written note." Rolls are used by composers to sustain the sound and create other effects, the most common of which is using a roll to build anticipation.

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Drum rudiment

In percussion music, a rudiment is one of a number of relatively small patterns which form the foundation for more extended and complex drum patterns.

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Drum stick

A drumstick is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.

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Drum stroke

In music, a drum stroke is a movement which produces a single or multiple notes on drums or other percussion instruments such as cymbals.

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Drum tuning

Drum tuning is the process of adjusting the frequency or pitch of a drum.

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Drum Workshop

Drum Workshop (also known as DW Drums or DW) is a an American drum kit and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California.

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Drumhead

A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum.

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Drumline

A drumline is a section of percussion instruments usually played as part of a musical marching ensemble.

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Fatigue Call

Fatigue Call is a bugle call which signals all designated personnel to report for fatigue duty.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Fibes Drums

Fibes Drum Company was founded in 1966 by Bob Grauso, a drummer, and John Morena, a drummer and composite materials professional.

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First call

"First Call" is a bugle call with three distinct meanings.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Garland Science

Garland Science is a publishing group that specializes in developing textbooks in a wide range of life sciences subjects, including cell and molecular biology, immunology, protein chemistry, genetics, and bioinformatics.

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Gretsch Drums

Gretsch Drums is part of The Gretsch Company's line of musical instruments.

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Kevlar

Kevlar is a heat-resistant and strong synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.

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Ludwig Drums

Ludwig Drums is an American manufacturer of percussion instruments.

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Mapex Drums

Mapex Drums is a Taiwanese drum brand manufactured by KHS Musical Instruments Company of Taiwan.

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Marching percussion

Marching percussion instruments are specially designed to be played while moving.

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Molding (process)

Molding or moulding (see spelling differences) is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Neil Peart

Neil Ellwood Peart, (born September 12, 1952), is a Canadian-American author and retired musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Pearl Drums

, simply known as Pearl, is a multinational corporation based in Japan with a wide range of products, predominantly percussion instruments.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Percussion mallet

A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument in order to produce its sound.

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Pipe and tabor

Pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by a single player, consisting of a three-hole pipe played with one hand, and a small drum played with the other.

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Pipe band

A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.

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Poly(methyl methacrylate)

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), also known as acrylic or acrylic glass as well as by the trade names Crylux, Plexiglas, Acrylite, Lucite, and Perspex among several others (see below), is a transparent thermoplastic often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass.

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Premier Percussion

Premier Music International Limited is an English manufacturer of drum kits and percussion instruments.

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Rattle (percussion beater)

A rattle is a percussion beater that is attached to or enclosed by a percussion instrument so that motion of the instrument will cause the rattle to strike the instrument and create sound.

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Remo

Remo Inc. is an American drumhead, drumset, percussion instrument and banjo head company founded by Remo Belli in 1957.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rimshot

A rimshot is a percussion technique used to produce an accented snare drum backbeat.

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Rogers Drums

Rogers Drums is an American drum manufacturer.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyrics).

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Rute (music)

The rute (also spelled ruthe, from the German for 'rod' or 'switch'), also known as a multi-rod, is a beater for drums.

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Sanford A. Moeller

Sanford Augustus "Gus" Moeller (1886–1960) was an American rudimental drummer, national champion, educator, and author.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Scouting

Scouting or the Scout Movement is a movement that aims to support young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society, with a strong focus on the outdoors and survival skills.

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Slingerland Drum Company

Slingerland is an American drum kits brand, currently owned by Gibson.

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Sonor

Sonor is a German drum kit and percussion manufacturer.

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Staccato

Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation.

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Swiss mercenaries

Swiss mercenaries (Reisläufer) were notable for their service in foreign armies, especially the armies of the Kings of France, throughout the Early Modern period of European history, from the Later Middle Ages into the Age of the European Enlightenment.

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Tabor (instrument)

Tabor or tabret (Tabwrdd) refers to a portable snare drum played with one hand.

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Tama Drums

Tama Drums, (from Japanese 多満 (Kanji) タマ (Kana), read tama) is a brand of drum kits and hardware manufactured and marketed by the Japanese musical instrument company, Hoshino Gakki.

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Taps

"Taps" is a bugle call played at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals by the United States Armed Forces.

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Tattoo (bugle call)

Tattoo is a bugle call played in the evening in the British Army and the United States Army.

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Thousandth of an inch

A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in an inch-based system of units.

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Tom-tom drum

A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.

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United States Navy Band

The United States Navy Band, based at the historic Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served the United States of America as the official musical organization of the United States Navy since 1925.

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Unpitched percussion instrument

An unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played in this fashion.

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Yamaha Drums

Yamaha Drums is a subsidiary of the Yamaha Corporation founded in 1967.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare_drum

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