![]() Even though separate tension lugs had been patented by Emil Boulanger of the Duplex Manufacturing Company in 1883, the concept was slow to catch on. Drum makers were still experimenting with many aspects of the instruments function and construction including shell size, snare strainers and throw-offs, and methods of tensioning the heads. ![]() Dodge, etc.) and Midwest (Duplex, Leedy and then Ludwig & Ludwig), was impressive if not daunting. The variety of instruments available from manufactures across the United States, mainly in the Northeast (George B. Of Bowers patents, seven of them involve specifically the snare drum.ĭrums from the early 1900s are generally unusual by modern standards in that nothing about the instrument had been standardized yet. ![]() ![]() Bower apparently had an idea of how to improve just about everything, but especially the snare drum. He boasts no fewer than thirteen patents for ideas ranging from timpani tuning devices to control mechanisms for a vibraharp and from bass drum and cymbal beaters to a heating and illuminating attachment for gas burners.
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