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Craviotto. What's in a name? Let there be little doubt that if anyone has established a true identity it's this man. Every year I return to his booth with some serious expectations and every year - there it is. Just when you think there's nothing more you can do to make a drum more beautiful or better sounding. This year was obviously no different. Johnny has sliced and diced his solid kits and the result is what you see here.
BEST KIT
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Quality that starts with the letter "C".
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Attention to every detail.
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This is NOT 26 flavours of Vanilla.
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Sprinkles and Cherry - Walnut hybrid kit.
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Who'se ya Dadi?
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DB. I see these at every trade show but never in a store. I can always tell a DB kit by the daddy long legs bass drum spurs.
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ddrum. Meet Kevin Packard, the man behind a drum company that has made a name for itself in just a few short years. Even better, Kevin has almost single-handedly shaped the indentity of ddrum products to fill a unique niche in which only a ddrum will fit. I get the feeling he's just getting started. |
Kevin's electro-acoustic orange alien wins Best in Show for Creative Display. This kit looks like something Bonham's great-great grand child might play. This kit drew much attention to the ddrum booth and was obviously the most photographed kit at the show. Kevin, you're constant pushing is making everyone else job a little harder.
BEST DISPLAY
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This is the ONLY MPEG clip in this pictorial. Click on the image to see this kit in 360.
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Cadeson continues to impress with some interesting art work snare drums
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Don't ask me how I got up here for this shot. |
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A unique identity without tripping over the orange peels. |
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This is the Drumnetics magnetically spung bass drum pedal, one of several new pedals at the show. This pedal works using the polar resistance of earth magnets instead of a spring. In this particular configuration however, the pedal lacks the expected (and often desired) recoil of a traditionally sprung pedal, meaning the beater and foot board come back at your leg for the next power stroke. I developed a magnetic resistance pedal sometime ago and there is a solution to that particualr issue. Don't wait for me to give that away though.
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The Dualiist. For feet with split personalities.
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Excel Drum sticks. More bumps than...well, you know...
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Drum Workshop. John Good continues to twist out some of the finest finishes available including this play on the vertical grain concept he developed.
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Tastly like some sort of caramel confection.
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DW introduced their new jazz line. The shells are apparently based on the traditional maple / gum formula and came about as a result of their work with new endorser Peter Erskine. |
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Tommy's Red acrylic DW kit appeared at the Zildjian booth.
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This pool ball kit currently appears in DW's ad campaign.
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The paint on this kit really brings out the beauty of the wood in a different way.
This was one of my personal favourite kits at the show.
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DW also introduced this Bamboo snare drum. |
Don Lombardi was on hand to make sure things kept swinging at the Gon Bops booth. Alex was happy to help. |
Pacific Drums featured this tangy orange number, which, by coincidenced nicely matched
the Remo booth across the aisle. |
Getting back to that identity thing because it looks like DW / PDP slipped on that ol' orange peel when they came up with this little number. Although this drum is badged as a Pacific it really doesn't represent anything that I have come to expect from PDP or DW. Mudflap girls belong on mudflaps.
MOST UNBECOMING PRODUCT
[shared with Pearl]
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Closer inspection shows that afer getting the Mudflap girl centered on the drum some, um, "tweaking" was done to get the nipples just right. I'm not sure if the pubes were intentional, but they added to the overall realism....
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In fairness to the sexes I felt obliged to take a few creative liberties ...one for the ladies...
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...and one for the gender confused.
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