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Assembling the floor tom
The principle of assembling the floor tom is basically the same as with the bass drum.
The shell is smaller which means that they don't have as many tension rods. The
hoops are made of steel. This means that they don't need any claw hooks; rather, you
screw them on directly. The tension rods aren't as long as with the bass drum either,
since the hoops are not as wide.
To make the hoops easier to transport, they are fixed on one side of the shell with a
couple of screws. To mount the heads, you must first completely remove the hoops.
Now lay a head on the shell and put a hoop over it. Both the hoops and heads are
exactly the same so it doesn't matter which one you use where. If you look from the
top, you can see whether the head and the hoop are really contacting the middle of
the drum shell.
You now screw in five tension rods per side. With the tension rods, you must always
ensure that the each washer is inserted.
You hand-tighten the tension rods in the diagonally opposite sequence. Like the bass
drum, we will be tuning later on.
You can now attach the legs. Fix the two legs at the back in about the middle. First
lightly fix the leg facing the drummer by hand and then fasten it properly when it is
standing. Hold the shell with one hand while screwing it with the other one.
Assembling the floor tom
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