For years, the ever-inventive drum equipment manufacturers have racked their brains. Design engineers have sweated over their T-squares. For what? Very simply, to win in the race for the great innovations—the winning ideas in design and manufacture, if you will. Of course, most of them have been quite successful during the past half-century and the drummer of the ’80s has reaped the benefits. But they weren’t all good ideas down through the years, and those that did serve a purpose in bygone days wouldn’t quite make it by today’s standards. Some of the items you’re about to see were all the rage for a short while, then gradually faded into obscurity. Others were downright disasters from the beginning, much to the dismay of the manufacturers. Our thanks to Danny Bevilaqua and Theodore S. Otten for their assistance in assembling this light look at a handful of paraphenalia that didn’t quite […]

July 1982 Issue