Drums are usually made of wood, because it sounds well and has characteristics, which allow it to make a pleasant tone. In general, for making musical instruments other materials are also used, such as: metal, bamboo, plastic; however, for certain instruments producers choose a wood. Some companies make drums of plastic and metal, and it is possible to dispute that it sounds better. Now, the overwhelming majority of drums is made of a wood and we will focus our attention on them.

You should remember: the harder is wood, the better is sound. The regularity of vibration depends on hardness and strength of the material. Regular and entire vibration helps to create steady tone after drumming or resonance, as it is in case of using plastic. There are many exotic types of hard wood, and many of them are harder than those types, which are usually used. But using wood should also be economic for mass production, so, it must be inexpensive, good for processing, and also attractive. If some type of wood is inexpensive, it means, that it exists in the world in considerable quantities. For being good for processing wood should have a long, direct and hard grain, with minimum of knots, and also must be strong enough and durable, but flexible at the same time, because it should be possible to bend it in a form of a cylinder. The same qualities are necessary for an attractive look, there is, for example, structure of grain, which must be pleasant for an eye and absorb paint well.

There are some wood types, which are good for drums making: maple, birch, beech, poplar, ash-tree and mahogany. There are various types of each of it, which grow in different corners of the world. Characteristics of every version are various, but we will not make distinction between Canadian and some other maples; Scandinavian birch and others etc.

Mahogany is the softest, and also the least attractively looking material, owing to this it is the cheapest. That’s why inexpensive drums are often made of it, but because of its unattractive look, the majority of such drums are covered with plastic. This also reduces its price, because plastic covering is not so effortful as painting.

Maple and birch are used for making the majority of high-quality drums. Selection between these two materials, actually, is a matter of taste and personal preferences.

You must know that maple, birch and mahogany have different tonal attributes. Also remember, that mahogany is a type of wood which the majority of manufacturers use. Know also, that mahogany used is not real African mahogany, it is cheaper, less attractive and worse sounding. Any of these materials, excepting cheap Luan, produce wonderful sound, you will hear it.

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