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No. Back in the day when Dixieland music was first popular - which is where the drum set first came in to play, the drummers job was to keep the rhythm, and to keep it “tight” - in other words, at the correct tempo. A drum set in those days was a massive 30” x 14” bass drum, a 13” or 14” snare drum, a drum of some type mounted on the bass, and a ride cymbal. Very, very basic. And not the solo instrument that we know and love today. The tom was used on fills and during the rare drum solo. Early on it was common for a drummer to have one drum mounted on the bass drum. That drum could have been a tom or an African- or Caribbean-type drum, or whatever the drummer could get his hands on. As music progressed we added a floor tom, another tom mounted on the bass, sometimes another floor tom and additional mounted toms that are on stands. Cymbals in general were used early on as emphasis to what the band was doing and most drummers only had one cymbal, which was mounted on the bass drum and therefore called a “ride cymbal”. We still call it a “ride cymbal” and we use it for our “ride rhythm”, but you almost never see it mounted on the bass drum anymore. Of note, the “rhythm” of a music chart was played on the snare drum back in the days of the early Dixieland bands. If you go to a Dixieland concert now and the drummer is playing the rhythm on the cymbals, that’s actually incorrect, not how it was originally performed, and not at all how the composer wrote the piece. The use of cymbals in general changed when Dixieland segued into early jazz music. The steady rhythm to a chart moved from the snare drum to the ride cymbal, and eventually to the high hat*. As for the splash cymbal, it became the third cymbal in common use with a drum set somewhere in the late 1920’s to the early 1930’s. Music was changing so fast back then and everyone was experimenting with all kinds of sounds. Eventually, multiple cymbals became the mainstay: A ride cymbal of 19 to 22”, high hats of 13” or 14”, a splash cymbal of 6” to 10”, and a crash cymbal or two of sizes ranging from 14” to 20”. The splash cymbal lost interest after the days of vaudeville and drummers like Spike Jones, but regained a place of honor with the jazz fusion era in the early 1970’s, and a lot of rock drummers use several splash cymbals in their set-ups today. *The original high hat stand was only about 6” tall and was introduced to give the drummer’s left foot something to do besides tap the floor. Operated by the left foot, you would commonly hear the hats with their crisp “chā” on the afterbeat. Somewhere along the line, someone in the 1930’s realized that you could actually use sticks on those floor cymbals and get an enormous variety of different rhythms and sounds out of those cymbals down there, if only you could reach them. Thus, the high hat stand was raised 30” and it became a main staple of the basic rhythm that we use still today. Just to give you an idea of what todays drummer has in his/her arsenal, here’s what my personal Pearl drum set consists of: - two 24” x 16” bass drums - six mounted toms in sizes 6” x 8”, 8” x 8”, 12” x 8”, 13” x 9”, 13” x 15”, and 14” x 16” - two floor toms at 16” x 16”, and 18” x 18” - one steel shell 14” x 5” snare drum - one maple wood 14” x 5” snare drum - one walnut wood shell 14” x 6-1/2” snare drum My Zildjian cymbals are: - one 21” ping ride - one 19” crash - one 18” crash - one 20” china swish - one 8” splash I can use all of it at one time, or break it down to a basic 4-piece set up with minimal cymbals, or anything in between, all depending on what I’m playing. I’ve had this set since 1978, it’s been packed up, driven here and there, played a lot, packed up and on to the next place for many years. I’m retired now and only play for my own satisfaction, so it sits in my music room waiting for me to go “exercise” every day! I hope this answered your questions, and gave you a snippet of the evolution of drum set history! If you would like any more information just message me here!

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