Snare drum

Claim 1

In a drum comprising a cylindrical body shell, batter heads disposed over the ends of this shell, flesh hoops, at the ends of the shell engaging the margins of said heads, counter hoops disposed around said flesh hoops, snares anchored at one end to the shell and disposed over one of the heads, and a snare strainer unit mounted at the opposite side of the shell and connected to the other end of the snares, the improvement in which the body shell is composed of two abutting cylindrical half-shells each with a number of hollow half-lugs spaced around the periphery of the body and complementing and abutting the hollow half-lugs of the other half-shell and forming, in the assembled condition of the drum shell, a plurality of hollow lugs around the periphery of the shell, each of these half-shells, with its half-lugs, being made as an integral unit moulded in one piece, each hollow half-lug having a threaded female member located therein and circumferentially offset from the threaded female member of the complementary hollow half-lug of the other half-shell, a plurality of bolts arranged annularly around the exterior of the body shell and connecting the counter-hoop of one half-shell to the hollow half-lugs of the other half shell, each bolt passing through its associated counterhoop and into threaded engagement with the threaded female member in its associated half-lug of tHe other half-shell.