NAMM Oddities 1998 The Other Room
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Percussion
DrumFrame

For the drummers who want to relax, the DrumFrame allows you to lock all of your hardware down, kick back, and play.

DrumFrame Ltd.
Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
(888)410-8884
www.drumframe.com

 

You know you've always wanted a translucent orange drum set… haven't you?

Fibes Drum Company
Austin, Texas, USA
(512)416-9955
mailto:fibes@bga.com

Fibes

 

Gemini

Ever wanted to play double kick and use your high hat pedal at the same time? The Gemini 2-4-1 has two beaters that are played individually by pressing forward and by pressing back with your heel. Each action has it's own tension setting and the forward pedal flips back for easy access to the mounting hardware. With two of these gizmos and two kick drums you could even do quad-kick patterns.

Gemini Percussion Systems
(800)205-8147
www.gemini241.com

 

This is the Coffee House Drum. Remo has taken this conga-like drum with two heads and they put an upward swinging kick pedal to beat on the bottom head.

KickConga

 

KickIt

This simple but effective system raises the kick drum so the beater strikes the kick dead center.

RSA Music Enterprises
New Almaden, California, USA
(408)927-7744

 

For those drummers and wannabe's that like to use pencils and pens as drums sticks can now use something a little more satisfying. The Pseudo Drumsticks are pen-like telescoping chrome-plated rubber-tipped well, pseudo drumsticks.

Pseudo Drumsticks
Palmdale, California, USA
(805)722-9209
mailto:tntsmith1@juno.com

PseudoSticks

 

Spring

This is something like an a-go-go bell with it's own spring reverb. I believe it's available from RhythmTech

 

Visulite2

These are great looking triggers, they've got a whole host of colors and shapes. They seemed to track nicely using a Roland V-Drum module. They also have a whole line of drums pads and accessories.

Georgia Music Distributors
Norcross, Georgia, USA
(770)300-0707

Visulite1

 

Zendrum While the Zendrum isn't new it's definitely odd. It has comprehensive MIDI routing and layering capabilities that make it a very powerful controller.

 

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