Just out of curiosity,
how many drums are on your tenors?
I gots 5 so i gots quints.
Isn't like 6 the most?

I have seen some with seven but the difference between the smallest heads are very little.. but at my school we have 5, but with professionals, sometimes they have 6.

Ive heard of more than 6...where im not sure though. We have 5 also.

We have 5. Our tenor players want 6 but...too bad for them. Never seen 7 before, but that'd would make for some really sweet parts.

yea ive never seen 7 either, even in the colleges ive seen theyve all had up to 5
the school i used to go to got new drums this year... 6 DRUMS!! it makes me angry cause those could have been mine. grrrrrr

1998-2001 Middle school concert Band
2001-2002 WHHS 1st Bass Marching, Mallets during Concert
2002-2003 FBHS Drum Capt Pit(grrr) Marching, Everything during Concert
2003-Now FBHS Drum Capt Quints Marching, Dunno not concert season yet!

we use 6. i wanna use 5 because the sound difference isnt really crucial. i've never seen seven before, but i would like to know what the purpose would be behind one more drum.

i have never seen seven, heard of seven, or can even figure out how they stick seven in there, and finally what the purpose is?

most DCI lines use 6...some still use 5....no one in DCI uses 4 anymore.

Our school has 5, and I really don't see a need for six, unless its like BDs rig this year, 6,8,10,11,12,13,14 (if thats wrong correct me). Different size shots make sense, same don't.

Our school uses 5, i tried to get the sixth one on, but i waasn't very successful, so i guess i will be carrying quints once again. I haven't seen 7 yet, but i think it's stupid unless you can have 7 with a bd setup!

We've got5

we use 6 drum set up, with a double 6", i wasn't really impressed with BD rig this year. i thought i would like a 6" and 8" spocks, but when they played anything with both spocks involved it sounded like a poorly tuned bongo and a spock....maybe the sound will grow on me..look heavy as hell...imagine if they were Pearl deep shells....holy_____

7 drums? Me want... We use 5, but when we get our new drums I'm hoping to get 6. I thought that the BD setup this year was pretty cool, and I would love to try it out.

Boston only had 5 but they used a 8" shot drum...the sound really cut through...alot a lot more than BD's...probably because of the tuning.

oh, and Big John...you gave BD a 7 drum setup...I have never seen an 11" tenor drum. BD's setup was :

12 10
14 8 6 13

most setups just replace the 8" with another 6" with a different head.

I reckon I'll chime in. Our tenor players have 6 (squints).

My high school line used quints. Old Ludwig quads w/ a 6" drum put on 'em. Not even sure on the brand of the 6 incher, heh.

we're rocking Dynasty quints. 6-8-10-12-14[or 13] i believe.

My drumline has 5, and theyre Pearls so Im sure my tenors probably dont want any more unless we get some Yammies or Dynastys, by the way, kevin_nhs, do you like the Dynastys and how are they holding up?

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cool my post got a star!! Can anyone explain the ratings? and maybe the whole um awards things... Thanks

That's 1 star out of 5. That's not good. Now back on-topic.

ok, I'm gonna go ahead and say it . . . . we only have. . . (gulp). . . . .4 drums!! . . . . i know, it's pathetic. But I don't see our school forkin out the money anytime soon to buy anything else. Ther're a nice set, but they're just quads. Does ANYONE still play with quads?! . . .

yeah, we have 4 as well. Altough i make make a spock... for more effect out of our music.

My school USED to have Quads. Yamaha Powerlites. They were total S*** though... Drums three and four were never really on all that tight, so they kept on falling off... lmao. We bought two sets of Pearl Quints. Very nice. So much better sounding too...

Lol this is kind of OT,but we bought one set before last year's season, and another just before school got out in July. our booster's buy all our equipment for us, and our band director told them to measure the drums on the quints and buy another. Well, you know what they did? The measured the quads. So now, we have Large quints and a small quints. *shakes head*

Our school march's 5. Yamaha field corps. I love the things...

Whats wrong with Quads?? I march quads, but soon to be upgraded to Sixes

I played quads for 2 years then i said i cant take it anymore and i made my PVC shot drums so now im playing squints (6 drums)

We've got quints even though we only use 4 of the drums. The only time we use the gock is when we are playing Mats.

Quads are still nice but I want quints or sixes so bad

If you think 4 is fun then you'll think 6 is the shizzz... I thought jsut ahving 4 was awesome then i added a 5th and i was quite happy then i added a 6th and now it just reeks of awesomenessticity.. Having 5 gives you more of a drumset kind of feel becasue you have your drum 4 is low like a bass then your shot drum is like your snare being right infront of you and being high and difrent then you have your 3 toms.

A bit of history..

In the year 1977, from Atlanta,GA. there came a Spirit and
this Spirit was blessed with a tenor line. In the age of the triple tom, this line had not 3 or even a scant 5. On
their carrier lived a creature called the septom. It spoke
with 9 voices and it was good...the moral of the story is?

Never forget. Drums are instruments, the more toms you've got, the more music you get.

septom..9 toms
September... 9th. month
Southern logic I guess.

i'm confused, how did that work out?

very carefully, but that would be way too heavy for anyone, I mean dang 9 drums? you'd have 6 toms in the outside area and have 3 6 inch toms for spocks. OUCH! talk about killing dogs, you'd have 6,6,6,6,8,10,12,13,14 for the whole setup, now that's crazy and no current Harness can hold that. Now having put my opinion on a 9 set, FHS has Premier Quints, BHS has Quads because we are a little poor. Oh well what can we do?

i've heard about them even saw a picture of that spirit line but from far, you also have to remember back then carriers weren't like they are today they just bolted drums onto metal, didn't worry so much about weight, hell the drums didn't even flip up, i would love to see a picture or a diagram of that set up,

i know a couple of years ago another site a an article from jon baily about the history of tenors, and the different set ups they tried one i thought was the most interesting was a slingerland quint i think but it had a 8 instead of a 6 but the set up went like this
..12...10...
14...8...13.

i'm not sure but i know there was a large gap between drums 1 and 2

actually i found a pic not very good but hey.

at my high school we have 5...maybe thinking about getting six..but it all depends if ne 1 can play them

with the september thing, sepetember was originally the seventh month, they added July and August after Julis and Augustus Caesar. So septom still doesn't make sense.

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It seems to me that if there were 7 drums then you'd have to reach quite a ways to get to the 4 that aren't spocks.

I have 5, I was going to have six, but they didnt fit right.

I've tracked down a pic of the infamous "sep-tom" for all who are interested....it's not the best pic for clarity, but it will give you a good idea of the size of this beast:
Spirit's line 1977

i use the octuplets (8). they are the best. they are very heavy at first but i got used to them. all the extra four drums are the same size, but they are tuned to thier deffernt pitchez. only problem is the heads break to often!

dude 9 toms thats insane, id like to see the music for that show...

pfff 9 i use 11-uplets

i only have quads at my high school. and let me tell ya...they are so such pieces of ****. they are wobbly as heck. but next year, we will have brand new quints. i cant wait.

So many toms!! AHh!!! You might need some extendable mallets to play that beast!

doing much research, i found out the names of every tenor set so far: tri-toms, quads, quints, squints, septoms, octuplets, im not sure about 9 probly just called niners but 10's are called decatoms.

Lol. To my knowledge, there has never been a set of 'decatoms.' As far as the others, you could have just asked someone here about those - its common knowledge for anyone whos been here any length of time

Hahaha, our quint players complain about carrying five drums, I would hate to see them have to carry ten!