Patent ID: 7265287

Claim:
A support device for a set of marching tenor drums to be carried on the body of a player, comprising: at least four drums arrayed in an arc-shaped configuration and comprising a first group of two or three consecutive drums and a second group including the rest of the drums; a frame; a holding mechanism for maintaining the drums in each group in fixed positions relative to each other, the holding mechanism comprising a fixing member extending between two adjacent drums of the same group and non-pivotally affixing the two adjacent drums to each other; a pair of first adjusting mechanisms for respectively adjusting positions of the first and second groups with reference to the player, each of the first adjusting mechanisms comprising an adjuster slidably mounted on the frame and connected to the fixing member of one of the groups, wherein adjusting a position of the adjuster with respect to the frame adjusts a position of an associated group of drums through a displacement of the fixing member; and a linking mechanism for linking the first and second groups together, the linking mechanism being operable to permit relative rotation of the first and second groups to compensate for differences in the amounts of adjustment of the first adjusting mechanisms.