Maker
Cooperman
Vermont maker of frame drums and rope-tension drums
Cooperman builds historically accurate rope-tension field drums and fifes for reenactment and early music, and a widely used line of frame drums and bodhráns. The shop has been in Vermont for three generations.
Models
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Cooperman Rope Tension Field Drum
Hand percussion
Cooperman builds rope-tension field drums to period specification for reenactment, early music, and fife and drum corps — the drum as it was before metal tension rods.
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Cooperman Frame Drum
Hand percussion
Cooperman's frame drums are built with a tuning system that lets a natural head be brought back into pitch as the weather changes, which is the practical objection to skin frame drums answered.
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Cooperman Bodhrán
Hand percussion
Cooperman's bodhráns are made for players rather than for the tourist trade: goatskin heads, an internal tuning system, and depths chosen for tipper technique.
Categories
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Hand Percussion
Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.
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Concert Percussion
The percussion section's non-pitched instruments: concert snare and bass drums, tambourines, triangles, crotales, tubular bells, and the stands that hold them.
Representative model
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Cooperman Frame Drum
Hand percussion
Cooperman's frame drums are built with a tuning system that lets a natural head be brought back into pitch as the weather changes, which is the practical objection to skin frame drums answered.