Drum shaped with a 42 inch diameter, and height of 19 inches, the TIROS satellite carried two 6 inch long television cameras with it as it entered its nearly circular low earth orbit.

Today, a spontoon ( or, espontoon as it is referred to in the manual of arms ) is carried by the drum major of the U. S. Army's Fife and Drum Corps, a ceremonial unit of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment ( The Old Guard ).

The largest sets of multi-tenors had 7 drums and were carried by both the 1977 and 1992 Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps tenor lines.

* Drum cadence, a work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band

The " okedō " has its own upright stand which was invented by Asano Taiko Drum Company.

Drum kits are traditionally categorised by the number of drums, ignoring cymbals and other instruments.

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* " I Am Going to Like It Here " by Oscar Hammerstein ( and Richard Rodgers ) ( imperfect pantoum from the musical Flower Drum Song )

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

In the US, a Drum Major carrying a large baton or mace will often salute by bringing the right hand, holding the mace with the head upward, to the left shoulder.

* Drum and bugle corps ( modern ), governed by Drum Corps International, Drum Corps Associates, and Drum Corps Midwest

The fonts used on the documents were printed by an RCA Drum printer using the OCR-A font.

* Drum corps-Selections from The Planets were performed by The Cavaliers as part of their 1985 repertoire, and as the entirety of their 1995 feature field show.

The Deagan operation was purchased by Slingerland Drum, division of Conn, division of Mcmillan, and ultimately by the Yamaha Corporation.

Drum brakes are often applied to the rear wheels since most of the stopping force is generated by the front brakes of the vehicle and therefore the heat generated in the rear is significantly less.

Drum brakes, like most other types, are designed to convert kinetic energy into heat by friction.

In 1914 the Midshipmen Drum and Bugle corps was formed and by 1922 it went defunct.

The feverish intensity of ' Beat Out dat Rhythm on a Drum ,' for instance, hasn't dimmed over the years, and the song's been covered by a wide variety of performers, from Pearl Bailey and Marc Almond to Mandy Patinkin.

The westernmost of the baronies are " Decies within Drum " and " Decies without Drum ", separated by the Drum-Fineen hills.

This led to work with collaborators from highly varied fields: players as diverse as Pat Metheny, John Zorn, Lee Konitz, David Sylvian, Cyro Baptista, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, tap dancer Will Gaines, Drum ' n ' Bass DJ Ninj, Susie Ibarra, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and the Japanese noise rock group Ruins.

* Drum-Founded in 1893 by John W. Laird, Drum is located just south of the Route T and Route F intersection east of Glennon.

Past participants have included Director John D. Hancock ( Bang The Drum Slowly, Prancer, Let's Scare Jessica to Death ,) Filmmakers Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank ( subjects of the award Winning Documentary American Movie ) and Filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos ( Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.

* The 23 John Henry Bonham Drum Outtakes

His music-theatre work includes the texts for Philip Glass ' 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, The Voyage, and The Sound of a Voice, the book for Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida ( co-written by Linda Woolverton and Robert Falls ), the Walt Disney Company's theatrical version of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan ( with music and lyrics by Phil Collins ), the libretti for Bright Sheng's The Silver River, Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland ( libretto co-written by Chin ), and Howard Shore's The Fly as well as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song.

No groups that performed at the original Woodstock festival took the stage at Woodstock 1999, although John Entwistle of The Who performed a solo set, and Mickey Hart, drummer of the Grateful Dead, played with his band Planet Drum.

* Drum programming: Erykah Badu, John Meredith

* Tom Major-Ball ( 1879 – 1962 ), part of " Drum and Major " and " Drum and Ball " acts, ( father of former British Prime Minister John Major )

Based on a novel by Michel Tournier and starring John Malkovich as the titular Abel Tiffauges, the film revisited many of the themes and time period of The Tin Drum.

Martin Brinsford ( percussion ), Rod Stradling ( Melodeon ), Danny Stradling ( percussion ), Dave Haines ( melodeon, melodica, bass clarinet ), John Gill ( Bass ), Mike Hirst ( Melodeon ), Tee Carthy ( Bass ), Glen Latouche ( vocals ), Gavin Sharp ( Saxophone, Keyboard, John Hart ( Trombone ), Simon Care ( Melodeon ), Neil Yates ( Trumpet, Guitar ), Jon Moore ( Guitar ), Alton Zebby ( Drums ), Steve Goulding ( Drum ), Tom Greehalgh ( Guitar ), Barney Stradling ( Guitar ), Lorna Bailey ( vocals ), MvKilla ( Rap ), Rees Wesson ( Melodeon, Melodica, Backing Vocals ), Neil Fairclough ( Bass ), Pat Illingworth ( Drum ), Andy Morel ( Saxophone ), Kellie While ( vocals ), Kwame Yeboah ( vocals ), Gareth Warren ( Melodeon, Paul Francis ( Drum ), Robert Fordjour ( Drum ).

* Fortescue, John William, Sir, ' Horace Smith-Dorrien ' in Following the Drum Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1931, pp251 – 98.

Regarded by some as one of the most adroit players of intra-service politics, Drum climbed quickly up the ranks in the Army ; he became assistant Chief of Staff to General John J. Pershing in France during World War I.

* Drum tech: John Nicholson at Drum Fetish

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* Slingerland Drum Company

* Brady Drum Company

Outside of the United States, the Premier Drum Company, of London, UK, after experimenting with a variety of aluminum bar instruments more closely related to the glockenspiel that were called variations of “ harpaphone ”, moved to the production of the Schluter vibraphone design.

After consulting with Superintendent Hanson and superiors Colonel Richard Cloyd Drum and General George Wright, Captain Starr was ordered by General Wright in Post Order No. 6 to lead 23 soldiers of Company F 2nd Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry and move the now imprisoned people the 110 miles from Camp Bidwell back to Round Valley on what became a 20-day death march now remembered as the KonKow Trail of Tears.

Metro – Goldwyn – Mayer ( via their acquisition of the holdings of The Samuel Goldwyn Company ) owns the theatrical and television rights to Oklahoma !, South Pacific, and Flower Drum Song.

Until 1956, drum heads were of stretched unborn calfskin, but beginning in 1957 the Ludwig Drum Company introduced mylar drum heads that gave a crisper sound and were impervious to damp weather.

On 21 June 2004 Smith and Paice joined forces at the launch of the London Drum Company.

* 24 June 2004 – UK, London – concert at the opening of London Drum Company with Chad Smith, filmed and released on DVD the next year

The early 1960s saw the founding of The Cooperman Fife and Drum Company, founded by Patrick Cooperman.

Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company.

* 22x14 Gretsch bass drum ( 1958 – 63 ) re-wrapped by Precision Drum Company.

Together they moved onto a Sausalito barge with Jak Simpson who in 1954 founded a business named the " BooBam Bamboo Drum Company ".

Rockett and Brian Cocivera joined forces creating custom built drum kits called the Chop Shop Custom Drum Company.

During this time Conn liquidated several of its subsidies including the Leedy and Ludwig Drum division ( 1949 – 1955 ), and the New Berlin Instrument Company ( 1954 – 1961 ) of New Berlin, New York which produced Conn's clarinets, oboes and bassoons.

Drum Company, in 1937.

In 1955, the Ludwig division was purchased back from Conn and renamed the Ludwig Drum Company.

Tama and Drum Workshop ( DW ) jointly bought the bankrupt Camco Drum Company.

Neil Peart Neil Peart used a single Swiv-o-Matic tom holder on his large Slingerland Slingerland Drum Company and Tama Tama Drums drum kits through the mid 1980s, in order to position a tom-tom directly over the center of one of his bass drums.

On August 26, 2006, the Yamaha Corporation of America announced, that it had acquired the intellectual property rights to the Rogers Drum Company at the BMMC bankruptcy court-ordered auction.

The Slingerland Drum Company is a historic drum company that is linked to the rich history of jazz drumming.

Between 1960 and 1962, Radio Kings were reintroduced and remain the premier product for the Slingerland Drum Company.

Slingerland's main competitor, the Ludwig Drum Company, had the advantage of being endorsed by Ringo Starr, but Slingerland, too, produced high-quality drums in this era and had robust sales, battling Ludwig for first place.