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Ludwig Downbeat
I've owned two Pioneer snare drums in my life....The first one is absolutely the best snare drum I've ever played. It's a 1964 gold sparkle with NOB r...
5 years agoLow serial# Ludwig Pioneer, color question
From skins_in_the_game...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
From leedybdp...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
From DrumBob...
5 years agoLow serial# Ludwig Pioneer, color question
First of all..that's a beautiful drum and a great year! The Pioneer is probably my favorite wood snare drum of all, so I may be biased! My guess is t...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
Sometimes, a drum designer will get it jusssst right. For example: Although they may not be every drummers "cup of tea", it has become generally accep...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
Yes, exactly. I would have never even considered the idea of shell deformation under tension as being a problem....but I guess when you are the one tr...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
From drumfx...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
I think it's clear that there were some rather eccentric ideas that have come and gone. Making shells of different shapes and coming up with a new way...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
From Pedal_Pusher...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
From DownTownFarmer...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
Gaither Custom drums (I think the guy's name is Mark Gaither) came up with a really cool idea that involved a kind of internal "spoke wheel" whereby t...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
Probably the most famous innovative idea in drum designs was the Pearl "Free-Floating" system...where the idea was to be able to utilize interchangeab...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
The second design idea that I would like to discuss (and gloat about again), are the drums made by Ivor Arbiter at around the turn of the millennium,...
5 years agoInnovative designs that attempted to "improve" upon tradition.
Knowing me, I probably already have a thread or two pertaining to this subject floating around....but, since we are all quarantined, I guess I might a...
5 years ago