found: Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed May 3, 2016(in obituary dated May 2, 2016: Remo Belli, a musician who pioneered the synthetic drumhead just in time to help a generation of rock-and-rollers shape their sound and then saw it become standard on kits across genres, has died; Belli, who founded Remo Inc., was 88 and had been treated at a Pasadena hospital, where he died April 25; Belli was a young professional drummer in the 1950s when he grew frustrated with the limitations of animal-skin drumheads; in 1957, he and his collaborators perfected and began marketing one of the first artificial drumheads made of a resilient polyester film; Belli's modest Los Angeles store, Drum City, grew into Remo Inc., now located in Valencia; Remo Delmo Belli was born in Mishawaka, Ind., near South Bend, on June 22, 1927)
