AXiS Pedal & Drum Co (formally Axis Percussion) is a

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

company specializing in the manufacture of precision

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...

pedals and drum hardware. The company aims for high qualities of craftsmanship and makes use of aircraft grade

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and

steel Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yield (engineering), yield strength, Fracture, fracture strength a ...

. Some Axis pedals, called longboards, are unusual in having straight flat foot plates with no heel plates. Users of Axis products include

Tim Waterson Tim Waterson is a Canadian drummer who holds the world record for the fastest number of double strokes on a bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylind ...

(former title holder of "The world's fastest drummer"), who can hit 1407 double strokes a minute (about 352 bpm) and 1030 single strokes a minute (about 258 bpm), and Tim "The Missile" Yeung (Winner of the World's Fastest drummer battle of the feet 2006) who used the same pedals to hit 872 single strokes a minute (218bpm).

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World's fastest drummer website
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