Re: Finding the pitch of the shell of the drum?
Does each shell have a fundamental pitch? Probably. However, I'm not sure that it matters that much in the grand scheme of tuning.
Too many drummers (myself included) want quick and easy shortcuts to tuning their drums. We want what guitar players have - we want a little box that can tell us, with a series of lights, whether or not our drum is in tune when we strike it.
There's a little secret that most drummers know when tuning a drum, and I'll let you in on it: do it more often and you'll train yourself to get better at it. That's it. How do you get better at it? The more you do it, the better you will be. It sucks, and it takes a lot of time, but everyone has to start somewhere. And just think, you might be playing on another kit at some point in your life and you won't have time to strip all of the hardware off of it to find the fundamental pitch of the shell and you'll be sorry you didn't train yourself how to tune drums universally.
-Jon
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