Slingerland's legendary Radio King drum sets
introduced the first double-headed tunable tom tom.
The Slingerland company was started by Henry H. Slingerland in Chicago in 1916.
As a fast emerging company, Slingerland took up drummer Gene Krupa's
request for a cutting edge drum set with tunable resonant heads
on the tom toms' bottoms. The result was the Radio King drum set.
Gene Krupa went on to become a big star with the Benny Goodman orchestra in the
1930s, and consequently, Slingerland drums and the Radio King became very popular.
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