WORLD’s LARGEST DRUM. In 1921, Paul ‘Spotts’ Emrick decided that the “All-American” Marching Band needed something to set them apart from other bands. Emrick’s idea called for a bass drum larger than ...

Bass drum pedals had existed for at least a decade, to be sure, but in somewhat different form. One such contraption, described briefly by The Daily Picayune in 1886 in a story headlined "Trick ...