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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2009
Applicant:
John J. Good, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Inventor:
John J. Good, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Drum Workshop, Inc., Oxnard, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the method of producing a drum having a desired tonal quality, including providing a one-piece wooden cylindrical shell, milling the shell bore to reduce shell thickness to a level characterized as associated with a selected drum tone preliminarily produced when the assembled drum having a head or heads is struck with a beater, and tensioning the head or heads to achieve final tonality.