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Stomp Box I came across Steve White playing some great blues guitar, alternately singing and playing and harmonica, and tapping his feet the whole time. He was there to attract attention to the booth, but what I noticed was the box he was tapping his feet on. It had a mic and pickup built into it along with some material and internal chambers to get the sound. This is something that he's been working on for years and I hope eventually this is avaiable as a product. |
Fingerstix These are a little like Tony Levin's Funk Fingers but are much shorter and have very little mass. The inventor, Tony Miranda, gave me a demo of these and he just tore it up on the kit in his booth. Fingerstix by Earthtone |
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Scott Dixon Aluminum Drums Now you can have a drum set that looks like a Haliburton camera case. These were actually extremely light shells made from aluminum. They were also showing guitar cases and amps using the same construction techniques. LS Enterprise LTD |
Phat Foot This is a clever little device that loops around the foot of your drum stool and attaches to your kick or high hat pedal to keep them from walking away when you play on smooth surfaces. This would be a lot easier than dragging a rug around with you to all your gigs. It will also work with keyboard sustain pedals as well. Drayton Productions |
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Drum Stick Sex Wax Uhhh, yeah. This isn't what you might think it is. Mr Zog has been making surfboard wax for years and is now branching out into the music market. As their literature says "Rub it on your stick, no slip grip." Riiiiight. Big Bang Distribution |
Coda Modular Drumsticks By my calculations, there are some 459 possbile permutations you could come up with using all the combinations of tips, front weights, front elements, handle types and rear weights. I could see how this system might be nice to have around the studio but most drummers I know just want to hit things and not have to piece together their drumsticks first. Coda Holdings, Ltd. |
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HansenFütz Practice Pedals While these are designed primarily as practice pedals, they can also be outfitted with beaters or triggers. HansenFütz |
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Square Pegs on a Round Head You guessed it, square drumsticks. They tell me that with a square stick that the thumb contributes more to the control of the stick than the index finger. So is that a good thing? Squarebeat Drumsticks |
Beat Stix Bandz You've got a custom paint job on your shells and tattoos on your body, why not dress up your sticks? You slip one of these over your drumstick and shrink it down with a hair drier. I wonder if they will work on square drumsticks? Big Idea Guys |
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The Zudong Part box-drum, part dulcimer, part bass kalimba. The strings are tuned as drones that you can either hit directly or will simply sound sympathetically. The same goes for the kalimba portion, you can hit it or just let the shaft of the sticks hit them while you play the box drum. Very nice. Rungo Drums |
For the Puerto Rican Patriot LP was showing a percussion rig done up in full Puerto Rican flag glory. Latin Percussion |
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Power Stix These drumsticks light up from tip to tail with interchangeable LEDs housed in the end. Just a twist of the knob and you're lit. Ameriwest Technology Inc. |
iShakers What would NAMM be without transluscent stuff? I would have bought a pair of these if they had been selling their samples. Cora & Peter Kuo, Inc. |
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