Lots of eclectic new hand percussion instruments packed Toca’s booth at the 2012 NAMM Show, covering drumming disciplines from around the world.
The Pork Pie booth is always a bit of a drum shell laboratory, where proprietor Bill Detamore tinkers with materials in his ongoing search for sounds.
Dream Cymbals chose to introduce a rather modest selection of new models – mostly extensions to the Dark Matter Series. But as they say, less is more.
Here’s a clip of Mike Portnoy’s powerful performance at the Sabian Live Party, which took place at the 2012 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.
We took a look at the DrumIt Five electronic drum kit, the flagship launch from 2 Box, one of the newest names in the electronic percussion market.
There’s a great new cymbal polishing system on the market that you probably have never heard of, and that's because it isn’t targeted to consumers.
There was no shortage of new drums at Gretsch’s NAMM 2012 booth, with new kits and snare drums, cool line extensions, and a mysterious prototype kit.
While exploring some of the remote corners of the NAMM Show we ran across the Power Float system, which “floats” the drumhead on the bearing edge.
It might have taken a few attempts to get started, but once product specialist Akbar Moghaddam got rolling he showed us Gon Bops’ new percussion gear.
It’s always a blast to visit with custom cymbalsmith Matt Nolan, one of the few one-man cymbal-making operations around.
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