Purdue's iconic Big Bass Drum has been seen and heard at football games for the past 100 years, but it will be conspicuously absent for Saturday's game against Notre Dame.

It’s the first time the Big Bass Drum will miss the performance since 1979. The drum has been a part of the marching band for 100 years and its history was chronicled in the latest Purdue ...

Notre Dame and Purdue celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Boilermakers' Big Bass Drum on Saturday without the instrument itself.. The Boilermakers’ “All-American Marching Band” performed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Bands' big bass drum will make its 2013 debut Saturday (Sept. 7) when the Boilermaker football team hosts Indiana State University at noon. Built 92 years ago in Elkhart, ...

July 2, 2002. Purdue's Big Bass Drum makes long-awaited return to Chicago. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When the heated football rivalry between Purdue and the University of Chicago was at its boiling point ...

Big Bertha II, the drum custom-built for the Longhorn Band, measures just over 9.5 feet in diameter and 55 inches in width. It also plays the lowest note ever on a bass drum, according to a ...

Named "Big Bertha II," the new bass drum comes after 100 years of service from the original "Big Bertha." To stream KVUE on your phone, you need the KVUE app. Download the KVUE app.

SUNRISE — The Florida Panthers will come full circle tonight when it comes to who will bang the big bass drum before Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final: Hello, Roberto Luongo. Luongo fired up the ...

Big MO, regarded as the biggest bass drum in the United States, was tuned this week for the first time since spring 2019 with the help of students and faculty from the University of Missouri ...

Big Bass Drum to Be Present At Pre-Dawn Ithaca Serenade. NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED. Fast work, patience, and binder's twine were enough to rig the ailing Harvard Band drum into shape for the game today ...