Private company
Corder Drum Company
Logo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
American percussion manufacturer
Corder Drum Company was a percussion instrument manufacturing company based in Huntsville, Alabama. The company was created in 1979 by Jim Corder, following his purchase of the dies, moulds and tooling apparatus of the Fibes Drums Company from its then-owner, the C. F. Martin & Company. Corder Drum manufactured a line of wood shell drums using Fibes-designed lugs, strainers and hoops until 1990, when Corder sold his company to Sammy Darwin, a radio programmer who renamed the operation Darwin Drums.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards
Corder Drum Company was a percussion instrument manufacturing company based in Huntsville, Alabama. The company was created in 1979 by Jim Corder, following his purchase of the dies, moulds and tooling apparatus of the Fibes Drums Company from its then-owner, the C. F. Martin & Company. Corder Drum manufactured a line of wood shell drums using Fibes-designed lugs, strainers and hoops until 1990, when Corder sold his company to Sammy Darwin, a radio programmer who renamed the operation Darwin Drums. Four years later, Darwin sold the company to Tommy Robertson, who brought back the Fibes Drum Company name for the product line.2
Products and brands
- drum kit
Listed on Wikidata.1
Timeline
- 1979Founded Founded1
Links
- WikipediaCorder Drum Company
- WikidataQ5169955
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataCorder Drum Company on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaCorder Drum Company on Wikipedia
- 3