pataflafla wrote:
Not that my response will answer your problem, but I'm continually mystified by two drum weight related issues here:

1. Why the drum companies ('Dynasty' being the exception with their Wedge snares and Squint tenors) don't develop lighter weight/design drum shells.

2. Why SO many high school band directors and/or their drum instructors specify the necessarily heavier quads, quints or --God knows why-- "six packs" for their tenor players, when they should use triples.

HS bands are *NOT* and never will be D&B corps! They don't do [or, arguably, need] the complex shows like corps; don't have the time to develop such shows; and --particularly-- can't reliably expect to have the more developed, larger-bodied people to *carry* the heavier, larger quads, etc. that corps must use.

STAY WITH TRIPLES for HS kids! Why, why, why put them through the pain of carrying the heavier drums? THERE'S NO REASON; NO JUSTIFICATION!! The argument that "Other HS bands uses them" doesn't matter!

GRRRRRRRRRR....

--Me
who, in part, wrote for & taught [including two state champion lines] and then judged HS drum lines in Illinois and Washington for 12 years... and who, now, increasingly winces at seeing HS kids suffer under heavy drums.