Saturday, September 12, 2026

Vintage Corner: The original Quiet Tone mute, by Henry Adler

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I had the amazing opportunity to purchase two of the first-generation, original Quiet Tone pads, designed and distributed by Henry Adler. Th...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Vintage Corner: More Remo pad love

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Remo’s first practice pads, circa 1960-62, were not tunable, and consisted of a round piece of Mylar set into a frame made of thin plywood. ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Product review: Percoustique practice pad

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Percoustique was a company that, according to the little research I was able to do online, made drums and drum-adjacent equipment that was l...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Cooperman Sticks: Gone for good?

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Cooperman Drum Company has been out of sticks for months, with no expected resupply date. So today, I was surprised to learn that Nick Petr...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Vintage Corner: Quiet Tone practice pads, from the early days

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According to verbal history, Henry Adler designed the Quiet Tone practice in the 1960s as a way to practice drumming quietly. It could rest ...
Friday, August 28, 2026

There were homemade practice pads before any other. There still are.

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The first US patent for a drum practice pad was granted in 1920 to Henry Bower, a drummer and teacher who created a “drum practice device” s...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Dolly was one of us, too.

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Dolly Parton, 1946 - 2026 Snare drummer, Sevier County HS, 1963 Godspeed, Dolly. Thank you for the music and everything else.