Axis Percussion is a

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company specializing in the manufacture of precision

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

pedals and drum hardware. The company aims for high qualities of craftsmanship and makes use of aircraft grade

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and

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. Some Axis pedals, called longboards, are unusual in having straight flat foot plates with no heel plates. Users of Axis products include

Tim Waterson Tim Waterson is a Canadian drummer who holds the world record for the fastest number of double strokes on a bass drum using a double pedal, with a record of 1,407 in one minute (January 22, 2002).Bathroom Readers' Institute. Uncle John's InfoMani ...

(former title holder of "The world's fastest drummer"), who can hit 1407 double strokes a minute (about 352 bpm) and 1030 single strokes a minute (about 258 bpm), and Tim "The Missile" Yeung (Winner of the World's Fastest drummer battle of the feet 2006) who used the same pedals to hit 872 single strokes a minute (218bpm).

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World's fastest drummer website
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