mapex drum

Mapex Drums is a drum brand manufactured by KHS Musical Instruments Company of Taiwan. Mapex has been in the drum making industry for over 18 years.

Contents

• 1 Products
• 2 Drum kits
  
  • 2.1 Voyager and Horizon
  • 2.2 Meridian Maple, Meridian Birch
  • 2.3 Saturn
  • 2.4 Orion
  • 2.5 Black Panther
• 3 Drum heads
• 4 Current endorsers
• 5 Past endorsers
• 6 See also
• 7 External links
• 8 References

floor tom drum

A floor tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs. However, they can also be attached to a cymbal stand with a drum clamp, or supported by a rim mount.

16x16 floor tom with traditional mounting

Paul Simmons with 16x16 and 18x16 floor toms

The floor toms are the lowest tuned drums played with sticks in the regular 5 piece drum set. Common sizes are

• 16x16, that is, 16 inches (41 cm) in both depth and diameter. This was the original size and is still most common.
• 14 inches (36 cm)x14 for jazz and fusion kits.
• 18x16; that is, 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 16 in depth, for a second floor tom.
• 16x18, a rarer size sometimes used for a second floor tom.

Floor toms can be mounted:

• In the traditional manner, with three adjustable legs.
• On three legs but connected to them by means of a rim mount on the lower rim, the original floor tom rim mounting.
• Attached to a drum rack or a (very heavy duty) cymbal stand by means of a rim mount on the top or bottom rim.
• Attached to a drum rack or a cymbal stand by means of a standard hanging tom mount on the drum shell. This method is generally restricted to the smaller, 14x14 floor toms.

The floor tom was popularized by Gene Krupa in the 1950s, using a 16x16. At first he placed it between his two bass drums, on the far side of his snare drum, but quickly moved it to its now traditional position to the right of his right leg.
A second 16x18 floor tom, to the right of the 16x16, appeared in the late 1960s and was popularized as part of the extended kits used by progressive rock bands in the 1970s. In kits used by rock and metal drummers, it is very common to find more than one floor tom. Roger Taylor of Queen uses two floor toms that are 16x16 and 16x18 while Lars Ulrich of Metallica uses two floor toms that are 16x16 and 18x16.
The floor tom is also used as a small bass drum by some (mostly jazz) drummers. In that case it is mounted horizontally on a specially designed rack system. More recently, companies such as Pearl have come out with "floor tom to bass drum conversion sets". These commonly consist of strategically shaped rods that one can put in place of the floor tom legs in order to stand it up horizontally. Under this method, it is fairly common that a drummer get appropriately sized bass drum hoops to complete the conversion process

medium tom drum

A tom-tom drum (not to be confused with a tam-tam) is a cylindrical drum with no snare.
Although "tom-tom" is the British term for a child's toy drum, the name came originally from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala; the tom-tom itself comes from Asian or Native American cultures. The tom-tom drum is also a traditional means of communication. The tom-tom drum was added to the drum kit in the early part of the 20th century.

A note on sizing

Traditionally, drum kit sizes are expressed as depth x diameter, both in inches. More recently, many major manufacturers have begun instead to express the size as diameter x depth, again always in inches.
For a drum kit tom-tom, the more significant measurement is the diameter, so this article uses diameter x depth. Hence a 10" tom-tom of 8" depth is described as 10 x 8.

For a more detailed description of the conventions and their usage, see drum size conventions.

small tom drum

A drum kit, drum set^[1] or trap set is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments set up to be played by a single player.^[2]
Percussion instruments can be divided into three main categories: idiophones which when played give out their own natural sound, membranophones, which depend for their sound on a membrane stretched over a resonator, and  involving struck strings. The traditional drum kit is a collection including both idiophones and membranophones. More recently it has also included electronic instruments, with both hybrid and entirely electronic kits now in common use.
More specifically, a standard modern kit (for a right-handed player), as used in popular music, taught in many music schools, and for which qualifications are available from Trinity College London and similar institutions consists of:

• A snare drum, mounted on a specialised stand, placed between the player's knees and played with drum sticks (which may include rutes or brushes).
• A bass drum, played by a pedal operated by the right foot.
• A hi-hat stand and cymbals, operated by the left foot and played with the sticks, particularly but not only the right hand stick.
• One or more tom-tom drums, played with the sticks.
• One or more cymbals, played with the sticks, particularly but not only the right hand stick.

A drum kit is usually played seated on a drum stool or throne or awesome spiny chair

Most drummers extend their kits from this basic pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals, and many other instruments. In some styles of music particular extensions are normal, for example double bass drums in heavy metal music. On the other extreme but more rarely, some performers omit elements from even the basic setup, also dependent on the style of music and individual preferences.