The end of an era: Cooperman will stop making drumsticks.

THIS JUST IN: Cooperman is officially closing down their drumstick production this fall, in favor of concentrating on other projects.

Here's my email exchange with Patsy Cooperman:

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From me to Cooperman:

Hello -- I know that you've been out of sticks for some time. I see that Steve Weiss no longer has anything from you in stock.

Does this mean that you are getting out of making drumsticks?

Thank you. --B

Cooperman’s response, 9-25-2026:

Hello -- Yes, we have recently decided to close our drumstick production as we concentrate on our other instrument production - you can see the statement on our webstore at www.coopermandrumshop.com. We will be adding “outlier” pairs (weight match but not as close in pitch match) to the store as we finish up the pairing process for all the models over the next few months, which may include some models we haven’t made in quite some time. Please let me know if you have questions, thank you -- Patsy

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This is sad, but not at all surprising. Cooperman have been focusing more and more on their beautiful hand drums for the last few years and I believe most of their rope drum production and tooling have been transferred to Loyal Drums.

Right now there are a few Outlier pairs of Nick Petrella #5 in hickory available at the web site. Patsy has said that other outlier models will slowly be added as they become available. Though I'm fairly happy with my few Cooperman holdings at this point, I did just buy a pair of Petrella #5's and I'll keep an eye out in case there's anything else that grabs my interest.

Except for Rohema taking over production of Nick Petrella's two stick models, there is no word of anyone else taking over production of Cooperman's other stick models. And the prospect of that seems highly doubtful anyway. 

A concerted effort to transfer Cooperman's stick production entire to another maker has not been reported or even hinted at.

Frankly, the cost in undertaking such a large transfer of materials, tooling and designs and the copyright issues involved in all that is probably beyond any one company these days. 
So if you have Cooperman sticks you like, hang onto them because very few more will be made, and they'll be outlier quality instead of first-run.

This is definitely the end of an era. 
Considering how long Cooperman have been making drum sticks, it's been a heck of a good run.