Tama MC9 Hoop Grip

I bought this bass-drum hoop clamp because Tama quality is legendary.
And a little pricey, but most other hoop clamps will destroy your precious wood hoops.

It will carry 2 cowbells on a Meinl Z-rod.

There will undoubtedly be more solutions of hoop-protectve clamps, but knowing Tama top quality, I decided for this.
Because I can be confident the rubber on this thing is from top quality as well, and won't tear off for a very long time, even under heavy usage.

It can vary the positioning of the rod, you can even use the clamp upside down if that would fix a placement issue.
It will clamp on anything else that's doesn't exceed the thickness of a BD hoop and it will never come off unwanted.

Like all of Tama's hoop clamps, it has enough strenght to pinch even metal hoops, so don't overtighten it.
The quality and musician centered ingeniousity of Tama hardware sets forth it's tradition with this item, and that's nuff said.

One thing to notice: mounted with a big tumba cowbell on a wood hoop of my 18” bassdrum, it does send vibes through the whole kettle.
It’s a monstrously big and heavy cowbell, and mounted on this clamp I can even feel it in my bassdrum pedal, which has no further consequences for the total sound.
Imagine when it had no rubber to damp vibrations, then everything would be worse.
I have to add that the bass drum is attached to a rack system, and everything is very tight. I suspect the rack ampifies the vibrations.
It’s not a problem live but it’s something to hold in account when recording.

Mounting a second smaller cowbell on the same rod above the first cowbell amplifies those vibrations with a big factor.
Suddenly the buzz of the vibration is slightly audible and that’s not good.

That’s probably why no one plays with 2 cowbells on the same rod mounted on the bass drum, but I already found another spot nearby for that 2nd cowbell.