Fife-and-drum corps of Swiss mercenary foot outfit also used drums. They pre-owned an early reading of the snare drum carried over the player's right shoulder, suspended by a strap (typically played with lone hand using traditional grip). It is to this contrivance that English word "drum" was first used. Similarly, during the English civil enmity rope-tension drums would be carried by junior officers as a means to relay commands from senior officers over the boom of battle. These were also hung over the take on of the drummer and typically played with two drum sticks. Deviating regiments and companies would have diacritic and unique drum beats which only they would recognize.
By the 1930s, Gene Krupa and others popularized streamlined trap kits leading to a basic four piece drum definite standard: bass, snare, tom-tom, and rug tom. In infinity legs were fitted to over landing toms, and "consolettes" were devised to hold smaller tom-toms on the bass drum. In the 1940s, Louie Bellson pioneered fitness of two bass drums, or the double bass drum kit. With the ascendancy of rock and roll, the role of the drum kit member became more visible, accessible, and visceral. The watershed moment occurred in 1964, when Ringo Starr of The Beatles played his Ludwig kit on American television; an chance that motivated legions to take up the drums.
