A full factory video tour inside the Remo factory, showing you how the most popular drumheads in the world are made. Revealing all the stages...
A full factory video tour inside the Remo factory, showing you how the most popular drumheads in the world are made. Revealing all the stages and production insights of how Remo drumheads are made and why they are so successful. All in one insightful drum gear lesson about the brand that made the era of Rock and Roll happen faster because of one great idea: '...the use of modern tough and strong plastics to replace the conventional animal skins.'
How Remo Drumheads are Made - The Full Factory Tour
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A full factory tour inside the Remo factory, showing you how the most popular drumheads in the world are made. Revealing all the stages and production insights of how Remo drumheads are made.
Your host is Herbie May, Director of Engineering and R&D at Remo. In order of appearance, here are the Remo artists that are in this video: Thomas Lang, Aaron Spears, Mark Schulman, Remo Belli himself (founder of Remo Inc.), Jeff Hamilton, Ray Luzier, Russ Miller, Matt Garstka, Nikki Glaspie, Zack Danziger and Benny Greb.
Video Index
00:00 Rolling the flesh hoops
00:53 Welding the hoops
01:36 Cleaning the hoops
02:13 The Mylar
03:05 Cutting the drumheads
03:48 Punch pressing the films
04:04 The famous Remo Step
05:02 Pressing The Step
05:49 Glueing the drumheads
05:49 The coating process
07:42 Visual inspection
08:12 DW (Drum Workshop) Vented heads
08:29 More Remo heads
Including conga and bongo heads, timpani, Banjo and the odly shaped Vox Telstar (Trixon)
10:16 Stamping the logos
11:07 Boxing & shipping
- A quick Remo introduction
? This Remo factory video
- The Remo factory photo tour
- A short Remo history
- The original 'R. D. BELLI ET AL DRUM HEAD' patent, as filed in 1957 (with pdf download)
