Why are all Simmons pads hexagonal shaped?
During the early development period Dave Simmons excibited at a trade show. He prepared 3 drum kits. One had heart shaped pads, one had bat shaped pads and one had hexagonal shaped pads. He wanted to demonstrate that these pads could be produced in any shape, but he noticed that the people liked the hexagonal shaped pads most. So this became the form for the serial production and the figurehead for all following product generations of Simmons drums.
