Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as the membranous.^[1] Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drumstick, to produce sound. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the "Thumb roll". Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.^[1] Most drums are considered "untuned instruments", however many modern musicians are beginning to tune drums to songs; Terry Bozzio has constructed a kit using diatonic and chromatically tuned drums. A few types of drums such as timpani are always tuned to a certain pitch. Often, several drums are arranged together to create a drum kit.^[2]

Brian Moore, A Story of Guitar

Brian Moore Guitars was founded in 1992 by Patrick Cummings, Brian Moore, and Kevin Kalagher. Moore first met Cummings a year earlier while he was employed as an assistant to Ned Steinberger of Steinberger Sound. Cummings was working for Gibson at the time as a general manager of several divisions within the company which included Steinberger.

Moore was not a guitar player whose education centered primarily on furniture design and had come to Steinberger to increase his manufacturing and engineering knowledge. Patrick Cummings was a serious musician, with a background in Electrical Engineering and Business Management.

The Guitar Company Evolves

The third piece to this puzzle arrived in the same year, 1991 when Cummings came to know Kevin Kalagher, a business man and avid guitar collector. Kalagher owned a successful commercial business in Connecticut and was doing print work for Steinberger Sound. After several projects, Kalagher approached Gibson about buying the Steinberger division.

Gibson, expectantly, was not interested. Later, when Gibson decided to move Steinberger from New York to Nashville, Brian Moore decided to not follow the company. He approached his friend Patrick about a design concept for a guitar. After a meeting with now mutual friend, Kalagher, the three men agreed on a business plan, and Brian Moore guitars was born (as a concept) with the idea of experimenting with composite materials to design the next great electric guitar.

As with other small shops, Brian Moore Guitars was initially conceived as a high-end custom guitar company with Kevin Kalagher pushing Moore and Cummings to design an elite class of instrument. The company was officially launched at the NAMM show in 1994 with Cummings and company garnering enough interest land several distribution deals.