That's cool, Jeff. I may try that. I had the same problem with my Remo head. Someone in here suggested this to me, and it works pretty well. He said he got it from the Remo drums, which provide a nylon cord with their drums to do the same thing. I had some cord already in my closet. I measured the cord around the outside of the head, marked it with a sharpy and cut it on the mark. Next, I matched the ends together without overlapping, and wrapped them with about 2 inches of white cotton trainers tape I always have in my First Aid kit (I'm a former kids's soccer coach.) Then I did the same thing with the cord that you suggest with the metal spacer. I had to use two lengths of cord to make the bearing rim flush with the outer rim.

This works pretty well. It's kinda tricky to make sure the two cords don't slip out of place, and some extra small pieces of tape wrapped around the two cords at 3, 6 and 9 o'clock. But it works.

I wonder if that's a characteristic of these Remo heads to have a high crown like that? The world may never know.

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Thank you very much!