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Cooperman Fife & Drum Co. Inc. is a maker of musical instruments based at a mill in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Founded by Patrick H. Cooperman, who began making handmade drumsticks and fifes in the late 1950s, the company opened a full-time shop in Centerbrook, CT in 1975 and consolidated operations to the Bellows Falls mill in 2006. The company makes fifes, rope tension field drums, hand drums, frame drums, drumsticks, and banjo rims, and also produces traditional toys, games, and wooden boxes.

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