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DW Drums Shops
DW Drums are based on Oxnard, California and are a hardware manufacturing company. DW stands for Drums Workshop. The company prides itself on being able to endorse a large number of professional drummers. DW Drums is a relatively modern firm, tracing their roots back to 1972 when Don Lombardi founded a teaching studio. This proved to be an expensive venture so fairly soon after an equipment sales operation was founded under the name DW Drums to help fund the costs of the teaching studio. The first DW Drums product was the height adjustable trap seat, and demand was so great that the company switched from teaching to producing drum hardware and has never looked back. The next big seller for DW Drums was the 5000 series nylon strap bass drum pedal, and this basic design became the basis for the first double bass drum pedal which has become synonymous with hard rock and metal music.
DW Drums then moved on to produce cable remote hi-hat stands and rotating base stands. The first major official endorsement DW Drums recieved was from Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe after he tried out a prototype kit the company had produced whilst he was waiting for his pedals to be adjusted. The rest, as they say, is history, and DW Drums have gone from strength to strength, expanding their facilities many times and grown to encompass to whole new companies, Pacific Drum and Percussion and Gon Bops. DW Drums pioneered the use of timbre-matching (grouping a set of drumshells together by listening to the note each shell holds before it is sanded). Every shell that leaves the factory is marked with the note it produces.
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