Corder Drum Company

{{Short description|American percussion manufacturer}}

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| name = Corder Drum Company

| logo = Corder drums logo.png

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| industry = Musical instruments

| fate = Acquired by Sammy Darwin

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| founded = 1979

| founder = Jim Corder

| defunct = {{start date and age|1990}}

| hq_location_city = Huntsville, Alabama

| hq_location_country = United States

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| products = Drum kits

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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.Nicholls, Geoff; Slingsby, Miki; and Bacon, Tony (1997). The Drum Book: A History of the Rock Drum Kit, Backbeat Books. {{ISBN|0-87930-476-6}} 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.{{cite book

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glC-iCcY6CUC&q=%22jim+corder%22+%22huntsville,+alabama%22&pg=PA9

|title=The Great American Drums and the Companies that Made Them, 1920–1969

|first=Harry |last=Cangany|author2=Van Horn, Rick|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation

|year=1996|isbn=0-7935-6356-9}} Four years later, Darwin sold the company to Tommy Robertson, who brought back the Fibes Drum Company name for the product line.