Floor tom rattle - weirdest and awesomest reason ever
Floor tom rattle - weirdest and awesomest reason ever
I've been getting this faint rattle in my 16" floor tom tracks. But not all the time. Just sometimes. I usually clamp my mics to the hoops, so I thought that may be the cause. I put the mic on a stand. A little better, but not fixed. My floor tom legs have little springy feet so the drum can wobble if it needs to without sliding around, so I thought they may be making noise. I taped them up solid. No fix. Wiggled all the lugs and they're solid. I'm stumped.
So I yank the heads off to tighten every screw on the damn thing, and lo and behold, a very large hard dead fly was inside the drum. Fucker must have gone in a vent hole and met his maker in there. He was bouncing around inside on the bottom head. So now he's gone and the drum is rattle free.
The moral of the story - don't get flies in your floor toms.
So I yank the heads off to tighten every screw on the damn thing, and lo and behold, a very large hard dead fly was inside the drum. Fucker must have gone in a vent hole and met his maker in there. He was bouncing around inside on the bottom head. So now he's gone and the drum is rattle free.
The moral of the story - don't get flies in your floor toms.
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Re: Floor tom rattle - weirdest and awesomest reason ever
I tried to find a gif of Jeff Goldblum morphing into the fly but i had no luck.
That fly made poor life decisions. but high five on the remedy.
That fly made poor life decisions. but high five on the remedy.
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Cool - that must have been one hard crusty fly
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Glad you found the culprit, but it would have eventually went away on it's own when the fly finally disintegrated & turned to dust...Dunno how long that would've taken, but kudos to ya for finding the problem....
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Re: Floor tom rattle - weirdest and awesomest reason ever
I'm just surprised that little guy made such a racket in there. I couldn't hear it in person, but somehow the mic picked it up.
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you've made your tom great again!
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Lol. My floor tom is fabulous. It really is a fantastic, fabulous drum. I have many good friends in the drum world, and they all say it's fabulous. Trust me. It's beautiful. Top notch. Then this horrible fat pig immigrant fly came in and tied to ruin it. I grabbed it by the pussy and threw it away because America.
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You have such great drums. The best drums. And you know all the best people in the drum world, too.
For those of us of an entomological bent, could you privide a more comprehensive identification? I'm assuming it was Calliphora vomitoria, but there are other large-bodied true flies (Diptera) that it might have been. It could even have been a hymenopteran. Enquiring minds need to know.
For those of us of an entomological bent, could you privide a more comprehensive identification? I'm assuming it was Calliphora vomitoria, but there are other large-bodied true flies (Diptera) that it might have been. It could even have been a hymenopteran. Enquiring minds need to know.
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Well, I'm not sure. I'm not a bug guy. I just kill them because if I don't I'll have to hear the wife and kids scream bloody murder when they see one. But if I had to guess, I'd call it a Texas House Fly. In other parts of the world, they call them birds.Bubba wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:52 pm You have such great drums. The best drums. And you know all the best people in the drum world, too.
For those of us of an entomological bent, could you privide a more comprehensive identification? I'm assuming it was Calliphora vomitoria, but there are other large-bodied true flies (Diptera) that it might have been. It could even have been a hymenopteran. Enquiring minds need to know.
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Re: Floor tom rattle - weirdest and awesomest reason ever
awesome youtube comment of the day
Lol it's still less satanic than whatever rituals Katie Perry and Taylor Swift do in their performances.
Lol it's still less satanic than whatever rituals Katie Perry and Taylor Swift do in their performances.
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