<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For what it's worth, many of the = better drum companies actually size a drum shell to a certain note. "Drum Workshop" or "DW" for short stamps the note of each drum = on the inside of the shell. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>many of the top studio drummers tune = their toms to 1, Maj 3, 4, 5 etc... intervals relating to the key of the song so = when they play a fill the notes don't clash with the other instruments. The drums = get retuned to accent the chords of the each new song. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For those of you who don't know = this, a drum lug has a square head on it much like a piano tuning pin. Older drums only = had 6 or 8 lugs per side. Newer fads have added 10 or 12 lugs per side. This = means that to tune one drum you have a total of 20 or 24 lugs to adjust. You're = trying to match the tension between all of them to the exact same spot. Many = drummers & drum techs don't know how to achieve this end result so what you = get is a thud sound with no resonance..........</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>ra byn james</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>