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Check out this youtube video of Karen Carpenter, I think it's from when She & her brother had a TV show. She does a drum solo on various sets & percussion and right at the beginning she's playing on a Slingerland cocktail set up in which the snare sets right on top of the bass drum, forgot w...

Does anybody make there own. I have made one set. They worked ok. A lot cheaper then buying them. i wrapped them in hemp string. Trying to come up with the best way Are these the smaller set of rods "bundeled" together? If thats what I'm thinking, I've used the shrink wrap tubing from ele...

hey Mathew, I'm intersted also. Just to update on the cases, I am having trouble locating the vulcanized fiber in small enough amounts for me to be able to purchase. I found a manufacturer here in California but their minumum order to manufacture is 250 sheets!!! I have, however, found a fiber boar...

hey Mathew, I'm intersted also. Just to update on the cases, I am having trouble locating the vulcanized fiber in small enough amounts for me to be able to purchase. I found a manufacturer here in California but their minumum order to manufacture is 250 sheets!!! I have, however, found a fiber boar...

All that accordion talk reminds me of... The accordion player who parks his car downtown. After he walks a block or so he realizes his instrument is in the back seat and wonders if he should have locked the car. He decides it's safe enough and doesn't go back to lock it. He shops a while, and when ...

I've been thinking of making some custom cases for cocktail drums. I would use a material similar the the vulcanized fiber like the Humes & Berg cases but not quite as expensive. I'm in the process of getting a price quote for the material. Would anybody be interested pending a price in buying a...

what is the definition of perfect pitch?....... when you throw the accordion in the dumpster and it lands on the banjo. what do you call a beautiful woman on an accordion players arm?......... A Tatoo!! Whats the difference between a banjo and a bucket of manure?........ the bucket. What does a Saxa...

Another thing you should try is have someone hit the cymbal for you as you are out front. Try listening to your cymbal from several positions out front. It may surprise you how different your cymbal sounds when you're not right on top of it. In the end, you may decide not to sound dampen your cymbal...

I got my cocktail set about a year ago. I have now started jamming with a new band, after getting use to playing a cocktail set.. My problem is telling the band I have been playing with for 4 years that I am leaving. I want to leave on good terms, but I know how the leader of the band is, and i don...

Could you take a couple 15" tom cases, remove the covers and zip them together to make an extra deep case? A luggage shop should be able to rework the zipper for you. Or did you want hard cases? How about the same idea, just strapping together two rigid cases with the covers removed. Some clev...

Has anyone here ever thought of using a Ludwig super sensative snare set up for a cocktail drum? It's got it's own throw off mechanism and sits under the top head. And for a while I had thought somebody was re - manufacturing the set up?? Maybe somebody here remembers. Just a thought, although that ...

Hey Radioclown, there is a Club Jordan currently listed on e bay for sale not a bad price right now, I think it is currently in the 500.'s item # 230220241375. And check out John's Slingerland kit for sale!!

I've located a Yamaha Jordan kit not far from home. The pictures look really good and the owner is asking $900. How hung up should I be on the shells not being maple? Metro and Phattie I believe both use Keller maples. Building my own sounds like fun though I'm not much of a handyman. Are there ste...

I don't think anyone is close enough to me but I'll be playing at Giovanne's Pizza in Salinas on Thursday night (on cocktail set)at the corner of San Juan Grade rd & Rogge lane from 6:30 on. Guitar/vox, keyboard/vox & drums/vox. '50s, '60s & '70s rock & country

I've located a Yamaha Jordan kit not far from home. The pictures look really good and the owner is asking $900. How hung up should I be on the shells not being maple? Metro and Phattie I believe both use Keller maples. Building my own sounds like fun though I'm not much of a handyman. Are there ste...