Talk:Tom-tom drum

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I've changed the description of power depth from two inches deeper than standard (eg 10x12) back to one inch deeper (eg 9x12) and removed the reference to intermediate depths. If anyone has any evidence for the other nomenclature, I'm very interested. But I was there and saw it happen. Power depth was one inch deeper than classic, and soon became the standard. Canon was another inch deeper again, and didn't appear on many kits (canon bass drums were a bit more successful).

I almost bought a lacquered birch canon depth Adam kit in the early 80s, probably glad I didn't in hindsight, although the birch snare drum was superb (12 lugs I think, 10 at least), as was all the hardware and the price was very tempting, maybe it would have been worth it just for the bass and snare drums. But the 10x12 and 11x13 hanging toms were a real problem, they looked a good idea on paper to someone I guess but up close they looked a little out of proportion, they were untunable with the heads supplied (the Musicman shop selling it admitted this!) and I wasn't quite brave enough to reskin a new kit in the hope I could find a successful formula.

The claim that power depth was two inches deeper than classic rather than one was made by an anon with no other contributions; I think it's inaccurate folklore (drummers meet a lot of that) but I'm of course interested in any other views. Andrewa 12:12, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm interested in the meaning of this sentence, from the article: "The tom-tom drum is also a traditional means of communication." If, as I believe, the author of that sentence is referring to the so-called "talking drums" of Africa (and other places), I believe this to be incorrect. To my knowledge, the instruments involved are not drums at all, but actually slit gongs. I'm not going to remove or alter the sentence because I'm not really sure if my interpretation of it is correct. Any comments on this are more than welcome. Merenta 19:41, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding power toms/Cannon toms, check out any of the big guys (Tama, Pearl, Yamaha...) from Japan in the early-mid 1990s. The default tom size at that time was depth= diameter - 1". Thus, a 12" tom was 11" deep and so on.

 It's a very nice technical article on modern tomtoms .... any chance of adding descriptions of traditional tomtoms?  24.6.49.98 07:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Why there is not moor pictures with tom-toms here?--Aladin2 21:14, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Torns

Which is the Middle Torn, and which is the High Torn? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.237.240 (talk) 15:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)