It seems like every bass drum I see has a pillow in it. Why aren’t they designed not to need one?
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The pillow is there to dampen the resonance of the drum. If you have a drum with no pillow and hit it there will be a long ringing “boom” tail to the sound. Then if you put the pillow inside and leaned it a bit against the other side of the drum (That head is called the resonator or resonant side, the side you hit is called the batter) before hitting it again you’d remove that long ringing tail and the drum would sound like more of a short “thwack”.
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