drumlove

It's early summer, and the beginning of the marching season for so many of us. Whether you march with an uber-modern DCI corps or your ...

In seventh grade, I got a timpani solo on a piece our middle school band was playing. It required the use of very hard wooden mallets. The o...

Video treat: UBB plays in downtown Portland. Sellwood Middle School students playing hooky decide to start swing dancing right in front of ...

When I was in college in the early 1980s, I came across a large lot of used drum and percussion parts, sticks and accessories at the downto...

Back when I marched in my high school band, the stick of choice for the snares was a traditional, heavy 3S stick with a medium taper ...

The morning after I took delivery on the new pad, I decided to try and see what was going on with the snare mechanism; one of the nuts would...

Last year I began collecting various incarnations and generations of Xymox drum pads. The collection now includes a pocket pad, a couple di...