6×14 Copper and 4.75×14 Painted Alloy Classic Snares Premium metal drums that provide maximum impact withoutsacrificing versatility or sensitivity. The Massachusetts-based Noble & Cooley drum company has lineage that goes back as far as 1854, when Silas Noble and James P. Cooley began building instruments in the kitchen of the Noble family farmhouse. The two men later moved production into a separate factory and soon began making drums for the Northern Regiments during the American Civil War. Fast-forward to the 1980s, and Cooley descendent and company owner Jay Jones ushers in the boutique era after breaking out his old steam-bending machines to build a customer a new snare drum from scratch. From that point on, Jay and his son Nick, the company’s VP, have continued to produce some of the most gorgeous snare drums and drumsets in the world, complementing seven generations of skilled craftsmanship with cutting-edge hardware innovations and […]

October 2020 Issue