Doug Aronson is selling this like new DW kit for $3500 plus shipping, no tax. This kit sells online new for from $4115 plus tax at Sweetwater.com to $4732 plus tax at guitarcenter.com
Read moreFor Sale: Tama Starclassic 5.5 x 14 maple snare clear lacquer
Up for sale is a nice 5.5" x 14" Tama Starclassic Maple snare drum in Maple Lacquer finish with die cast hoops.
Read moreFor Sale - DW Collectors 5x13 heavy brass snare drum w trigger
For Sale $600 - consigned to me years ago is a DW Collectors 5x13 heavy brass snare drum w gold hardware, 8 lugs, and a trigger for electronics professionally installed. It has been well used. Everything is completely functional.
Read moreFor Sale DW Collectors Copper 6.5 x 14 Copper Snare
These copper drums go for a lot more but I’ve price this one to sell. More pictures upon request. I played it before the lug broke and it sounded great.
Read moreMissing Rudiments: Ruffs
In researching for my Missing Rudiments book, I found many alternate stickings for ruffs.
Read moreEric Everett : Remembering Tony Williams
“Believe It” is the name of Williams’ 1975 album with this new band line-up: Allan Holdsworth (guitar), Alan Pasqua (keyboards) and Tony Newton (bass).
Read moreMarc Potocsky : The Best Of Both Worlds
After 35 years in the music business, Marc put away the drumsticks and began a full-time career as a fine artist and portrait painter. He opened MJP Studios, which is a full service decorative painting company located in Branford, CT. Moe has painted many of the iconic musicians adorning the walls of the legendary ‘Toads Place’ in New Haven, CT.
Read moreWWSGD? (What Would Steve Gadd Do?)
It’s an old joke: How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb? The standard answer is three: one to change the bulb and two more to discuss how Steve Gadd would have done it.
Read moreThe Wish Book Stencils
Sears not only owned the Sears brand name, but they also owned the Silvertone name which they used for musical instruments and their electronics, but they were also okay with not branding their instruments at all. In fact, most of the drums that came through Sears had no branding at all.
Read moreEdward Tucker’s Catalog Corner - 1955 WFL Catalogs, two of a kind!
955 WFL Black & White and Colorized versions of the 1955 catalog with a few big differences.
Read moreUncatalogued 1945 Blue Marine Pearl Slingerland Radio King Snare
The color is so vibrant and bright it was shocking once I cleaned all the dirt off.
Read more1929 LUDWIG & LUDWIG 5x14 ROSE PEARL STANDARD-SENSITIVE MODEL
This is a very rare snare drum. Of the 3 dance/band Sensitive models introduced in 1929 I feel that the Standard-Sensitive is the rarest although I would not argue if the New-Era Sensitive was also thought of as the rarest.
Read moreFrom The Editor - Consignments and Brokerage
Want to sell your gear the old fashioned way? Advertise in NSMD. Also you can let NSMD handle the whole sale on a consignment basis.
Read moreSOLD!!! 1962 Slingerland Capri Pearl set for sale
14x20 bass drum, 8x12 mounted tom, 16x16 floor tom, fiber cases, throne.
Read moreMy Favorite Things - A review of drum set practice mutes
During Covid in 1920 I bought some Remo Silent Stroke heads and some “holy cymbals” to put on my teaching kit at home. My wife Georgetta was working from home so I had to lower the volume.
Read moreRestoration of a Ludwigold Snare Drum – Against All Odds
I first applied a high solids filling primer to completely fill in the wood grain, followed by a commercial textured coating to effect the irregular surface feature of this finish. The intermediate and final colour coats were achieved with an antique brass lacquer finish, onto which I sprinkled brass metal flakes. I then repeated this application sequence a few more times to add depth of finish, before applying a clear lacquer to produce the final ‘satin smooth’ appearance and feel. Additionally, each piece of the copper re-plated hardware was then treated with my ‘aged patina’ process to simulate almost 100-year-old Deluxe finish.
Read moreEight Missing Paradiddles - an excerpt from "The Missing Rudiments" book by George Lawrence
There are eight “missing” diddle (paradiddle) fundamental stickings in the list below: The tap diddle, right paradiddle, left paradiddle, five-a diddle, triplet diddle, ruff-a diddle, seven-a-diddle, and the paradiddle-diddle-diddle.
Read moreRefurbished 1975 Slingerland Drum Kit
In 1975 I purchased a chrome over wood Slingerland kit that I travelled extensively with over the next 11 years. This was a monster kit with a 28x14 bass drum,
Read moreBasic Coordination for the Drum Set - Mat Marucci
Here is an excerpt from Mat’s new book. It looks simple at first glance, but it’s not. Several of the exercises tripped me up.
Read moreFreddie Choquette Jr. – Gone But Not Forgotten
The new set was a gift from my parents by way of Western, Mass. drummer Fernand Choquette Jr. who had been wheeling and dealing in drums and cymbals since high school. His reputation preceded him. If you wanted a square deal, Freddie was the man to see.
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