Abstract: A resonator body for musical drum instruments is formed by shaping and gluing together several superimposed material layers, particularly wood veneer layers or plywood layers. The resonator body has the shape of a hollow cylinder. Abutting edges of the individual material layers extend in the direction of the resonator body axis and the abutting edges of the individual material layers are offset relative to each other in circumferential direction of the hollow cylinder. In order to ensure that the abutting edges are permanently and securely held together, the abutting edges of at least the outer material layer, preferably of all material layers, have contours which are toothed and complementary relative to each other and inter-engage in circumferential direction of the hollow cylinder.

Abstract: Percussion instrument including a tensioning mechanism for the head, comprising a number of threaded bushings mounted about the periphery of the instrument wall, each with a screw adjustable therein acting on a hoop holding the skins; each bushing has on its circumference a tangential slot which a peripheral section of a spring ring engages under tension; each screw has on its shank a peripheral catch surface for that peripheral section of the spring ring which lies in the slot of the bushing.