![]() ![]() The traps were soon popularized by inventive and virtuoso drummers. The drum kit is an American invention, and, like America, it is a melting pot, bringing together drums and cymbals from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. American inventors did their part, providing the bass drum pedal, hi-hat stand, and an array of different-sounding cymbals. The demands of keeping time in an early 20th century jazz band had led to the creation of the drum kit.Īs early as the 1890s, drummers in New Orleans were putting the snare, bass drum, and cymbals of a marching band together in a contraption for the stage, so that one drummer could play them all. In 1914, the “traps”-short for “contraption”-was a new and curious musical phenomenon. ![]() “One would think he kept a junk store and had gone crazy.” “It is great to watch the trap-drummer,” wrote music critic Strickland Gilliand in The Indianapolis Star in 1914. ![]()
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