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Marching Percussion

Field snares, tenors, and bass drums

Carried percussion built for outdoor projection: high-tension field snares, multi-tenor sets, and graduated bass drum lines.

Models

  • Andante Pipe Band Snare

    Marching percussion · United Kingdom

    Andante builds pipe band snares, tenors, and bass drums for competition use, where the ensemble's tuning and the drum's response are judged as closely as the pipes.

  • System Blue Marching Snare

    Marching percussion · United States

    System Blue's snares were specified by the organisation behind the Blue Devils for its own line, which makes them an unusually direct expression of what competitive field percussion wants.

  • Dynasty Marching Snare

    Marching percussion · United States

    Dynasty's field snares are built around high-tension tuning and a carrier system, and are common in American high school and college band programmes.

  • Dynasty Marching Bass Drums

    Marching percussion · United States

    A marching bass line is a graduated set of drums, each carried by a different player, tuned so a written figure travels down the line. Dynasty supplies them in matched sets.

  • System Blue Marching Tenors

    Marching percussion · United States

    The tenor sets follow the same brief as the snares: specified by a competing corps around what the idiom actually demands rather than adapted from concert designs.

  • Pearl Championship Marching Tenors

    Marching percussion · Japan

    Marching tenors are carried sets of four to six tuned drums played as one instrument, and Pearl's Championship line covers the standard configurations with a carrier designed around the load.

  • Pearl Championship CarbonPly Marching Snare

    Marching percussion · Japan

    Championship CarbonPly snares add carbon fibre plies to a maple shell so the drum survives the extreme head tension marching lines use without going dead.

  • Premier HTS 800

    Marching percussion · United Kingdom

    Pipe band snare drums are tuned to tensions no other drum sees, and the HTS 800 is one of the instruments that made that possible: a tensioning system stiff enough to hold a Kevlar head at competition pitch.

  • Lefima Concert Bass Drum

    Concert percussion · Germany

    Lefima builds concert and marching bass drums with composite shells that cut a large drum's weight substantially, which matters most when a player has to carry it.

  • Yamaha SFZ Marching Snare

    Marching percussion · Japan

    The SFZ series is Yamaha's field snare, with a tensioning system designed to hold pitch through a whole show and a shell that can take the head tension a corps line demands.

Makers

  • System Blue

    System Blue was founded by the organisation behind the Blue Devils drum corps to build the equipment it wanted, and the instruments are specified around competitive field percussion rather than adapted from concert designs.

  • Andante

    Andante builds the high-tension snare drums used by competitive pipe bands, where head tension and snare response are pushed further than in any other idiom, along with tenors and bass drums for the same ensembles.

  • Lefima

    Lefima has built drums in Bavaria since the nineteenth century and is known for concert and marching bass drums, including carbon-composite shells and hardware designed to keep a large drum's weight off the player.

  • Dynasty

    Dynasty builds field snares, tenors, and marching bass drums for the American band and drum corps market, with carriers and tensioning systems designed around the extreme head tensions the idiom uses.

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