An often-overlooked part of a Vintage MIJ kit is the Bass Drum Pedal. Most Japanese pedals back then had no name or markings and were pretty generic looking, but Pearl had their “SPEED PEDAL”, no doubt inspired by the Ludwig Speed King and Star had their “PRO PEDAL”, and there is even a “TOP PEDAL” out there. Not to be outdone Gracy via Yan Drum had their “FOOT PEDAL”

For me this drum is a keeper, it has so many of the things I look for in a snare drum, thin shell, solid lugs, stick-saver hoops, a reliable strainer, and a stunning wrap. If you find a Gracy like this one out there, I highly recommend!

Presenting the most durable and authentic looking replacements for missing or cracked/broken factory original Rim Clips, Tube Lugs and Tension Rods. 

Designed and precision manufactured to meet the specification tolerance and appearance requirements for factory original fittings on 1920’s and 30’s Ludwig & Ludwig snare drums in both Deluxe (new or aged) and Bright Nickel finishes.

Designed with Peter Erskine, the K Custom Left Side Ride is an all-important second ride

Up for sale is a Zildjian A Custom 20" Ping Ride weighing in at 2907 grams. $240 + $30 shipping

It took a long time for my ears to settle down and to find ways of coping with a pretty debilitating condition (tinnitus, hyperacusis, recruitment). Today I can do a bit of playing and that has enabled me to teach again, and that’s where I think I’m really meant to be.

One of the most important but often overlooked steps in the transcription process is playing what you have written down.

To call Tony Williams a drumming legend is a complete understatement. Tony wasn't just a drummer… His drumming was a ‘Distinct Style’, which influenced other drumming legends -  (Steve Gadd for one).

Nic Marcy is selling this shell pack for $2500 plus shipping. No hardware.
kick 22 x18
8x12 and 9x13 rack toms
16 x 16 Floor tom 
Contact Nic at NICDRUMS@aol.com

Latest PDF book by George Lawrence. The 2025 first edition Includes the list of 40 Percussive Arts Society rudiments plus 84 more fundamental stickings that are not in the P.A.S. list

Purchased new in 2022. Played in our studio a few times. The drum is in great shape! - no blemishes, scratches, or other. The batter head has stick marks and light wear. The rosewood pops!

Up for sale is a nice 5.5" x 14" Tama Starclassic Maple snare drum in Maple Lacquer finish with die cast hoops.

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.

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.

In researching for my Missing Rudiments book, I found many alternate stickings for ruffs.

“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).

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.

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.

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.

955 WFL Black & White and Colorized versions of the 1955 catalog with a few big differences.

The color is so vibrant and bright it was shocking once I cleaned all the dirt off.

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.

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.

14x20 bass drum, 8x12 mounted tom, 16x16 floor tom, fiber cases, throne.

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.

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.

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.

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,