[noiseman]

Now imagine a drumhead that’s incredibly thin, only about 10 millimeters wide, and covered in tiny triangular holes.

Huh? That’s a drumhead a centimeter thick. That would be the thickest drumhead ever made. It would be thicker than the chunkiest cell phone.

I suspect this is another case of a know-nothing “journalist” writing copy they don’t even proofread, about a subject they don’t understand.

[Red Badger]

I suspect they meant micrometers. I tried looking at the original article in “Nature”, but it’s a paywall site.

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[plain talk]

"Now imagine a drumhead that’s incredibly thin, only about 10 millimeters wide, and covered in tiny triangular holes"

[sasquatch]

I suspect the problem is with a reader. There is a difference between ‘wide’ and ‘thick’.

[ncdrumr]

Drummer here. I believe they meant mil. Drumhead thickness is measured in mil, which is one-thousandth of an inch. For example, the popular Remo Ambassador drumhead is 10 mil, or .01 inches thick.