D'addario & Company, Inc.

Jason Talas

Bryan Kelly

James D'Addario

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Ben Alldred

A wooden drum shell that is treated by direct heating by exposure to a flame to alter the state of fibers in an outer layer of the drum shell relative to the untreated drum shell or inner fibers below the outermost layer. A method of manufacturing a treated drum shell includes selecting a wooden starting material, forming an untreated drum shell from the starting material, and exposing the drum untreated drum shell directly to a flame.

Flame-treated drum and method of treatment

A drumstick has a conventional tip and tapered shank, but the handle portion on the shaft has a wavy profile, with a nominal diameter and with the peaks rising above the nominal diameter and the valleys recessed below the nominal diameter. Whether or not the drumstick has a wavy handle, the outer surface of the drumstick has a tack which increases with increasing moisture of the drumstick outer surface, e.g., the tack increases between an initial condition of a drummer's dry skin against a dry drumstick surface and a play condition of a drummer's moist skin against a moist drumstick.

Variable tack drumstick handle

A wooden drumstick that is treated by direct heating by exposure to a flame to improve hardness characteristics by altering the state of fibers in an outer layer of the drum stick relative to inner fibers below the outer layer. A method of manufacturing a treated drumstick includes selecting a wooden starting material, forming a drumstick profile from the wooden starting material, and exposing the drumstick profile directly to a flame.

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East Bernard, TX, United States of America

Jason Talas