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DW Drum Kits
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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