NAMM Oddities 2001 The Other Room
Guitars Goodies Percussion Instruments Techno Geek Toys You Figure It Out
Percussion
ScanBeat Peddles

ScanBeat Peddles

Here's a new twist on the kick/high hat pedal. It's set up something like those glider rocking chairs so that there's not just one axis of movement. On the rare occasions where I've sat down behind a drum set I can never get the kick to work very well. With this I could really play it. I image that a real drummer would really be able to do something with it.

Scan-Bloc Trading & Mfg.
455 Glass Mountain Road
St. Helena, Napa Valley
California, 94574
(707) 963-8363
www.scan-beat.com

 

The Drumometer

Want to see how fast you can play? You plug in an electronic pad or a pad with a contact mic and you can have it count the number of hits within the specified time limit.

DrumDial, Inc.
1830 E. Broadway #124-197
Tucson, AZ 85719
(800) 860-0321
www.drumometer.com

The Drumometer

 

Arbiter Flats

Arbiter Drums

Even without a shell these drums sounded good. They use a tuning system that uses just one tuner to adjust it. You can also use this tuning system on normal drums as well.

Arbiter Drums
(877) 553-5596
www.arbiterdrums.com

Arbiter tuning

 

Triggerheads

These drum heads are made of a sort of permeable mesh so you can wail on them and they're virtually silent. They will however work just great with normal drum triggers. This bridges the gap between pads and triggers on acoustic drums. Combine these with the Arbiter (above) quick release rims and you could go back and forth between normal drum head and these very quickly.

T Drum
41 (0)1 7422600
www.triggerhead.com

Triggerheads

 

Drum-A-Long

Drum-A-Long

Another drummer knee-saving device, the Drum-A-Long is a basically a 9"x11" mouse pad with a picture of a drum set.

Rhythm Magic
P.O. Box 28
Frazier Park, CA 93225
(661) 245-5628
www.drumalong.com

 

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