Patent ID: 9536503
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G10D

Claim:
1. A simplified banjo and drum body comprising: (a) a stretchable banjo or drum head material; (b) an upper compression ring having an upper surface and a lower surface, including grooves located on said upper compression ring lower surface; (c) a shell having an upper edge surface and a lower edge surface including mating compression grooves located on said upper edge surface of said shell; and (d) a plurality of fasteners imbedded into said shell used to tighten said upper compression ring to said shell; wherein when said banjo or drum material is positioned between upper compression ring and said shell, and said plurality of fasteners imbedded into said shell used to tighten said upper compression ring to said shell are tightened down, said upper compression ring is tightened down on said shell, and said banjo or drum head material is stretched between said grooves on said upper compression ring and said mating compression grooves on said shell, and thereby tightened.