Musikmesse 2012

Premier Genista
Musikmesse 2012

Serving drummers worldwide since 1922, Premier has remained at the forefront of percussion design and development.
A long established company that is rich in history and tradition, Premier’s name has been associated with a wealth of star performers in many musical genres not only at home in England but all over the globe. From the monster set-ups of stadium filling rockers to the compact kits championed by the jazz community, Premier continues to deliver ‘must have’ instruments.

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Meinl Cymbals – Musikmesse 2012 special

From drummers for drummers! Experienced and motivated individuals, who are all drummers themselves, form our executive and creative team. This team plans all of our activities, manages our promotional campaigns and creates inspiring cymbal sounds. Some of our top artists take part in this process also. We are proud to say that we are drummers first!

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UFIP Ear Created Cymbals
News from Musikmesse 2012

La storia della UFIP affonda le sue radici agli inizi del secolo scorso; inizialmente organizzata con la funzione di azienda commissionaria, la UFIP svolgeva essenzialmente un ruolo di carattere commerciale con lo scopo di collocare sul mercato gli strumenti musicali prodotti da piccole aziende a carattere familiare operanti nel territorio tra Pistoia e Firenze.

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Vater drum sticks – Musikmesse 2012 special

The Vater brand was officially established in November of 1991, but the Vater family history with drumsticks started decades earlier, in the basement of Boston’s legendary Jack’s Drum Shop. There, Alan and Ron’s grandfather Jack Adams, hand turned drumsticks for the drummers like Buddy Rich as early as 1956. In the early to mid 1980’s, the Vater brothers began producing private-label drumsticks alongside sticks for Vic Firth and Zildjian. A few years of this led to the brothers deciding to move their business to a new factory in Holbrook MA.

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Premier Snare Drums

Musikmesse 2012

Serving drummers worldwide since 1922, Premier has remained at the forefront of percussion design and development.
A long established company that is rich in history and tradition, Premier’s name has been associated with a wealth of star performers in many musical genres not only at home in England but all over the globe. From the monster set-ups of stadium filling rockers to the compact kits championed by the jazz community, Premier continues to deliver ‘must have’ instruments.

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Regal Tip drum sticks – Musikmesse 2012 special

Necessity is the mother of invention. No one knows this better than Joe Calato, who revolutionized the drumstick industry in 1958. Prior to that time only wood tip sticks were available. Although the sound was great, many drummers were frustrated when their wood tips wore out too quickly. That’s when professional drummer and woodworker, Joe Calato, decided to try to make a stick that would last longer and would offer a new, cutting edge sound.

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Meinl Percussion
New Congas Design

La Meinl Percussion è un’ industria produttrice di piatti musicali e strumenti a percussione la cui sede principale si trova in Germania, a Gutenstetten. Fu fondata in Germania nel 1951 da Roland Meinl con la creazione della Roland Meinl Musikinstrumente. Durante i primi anni di attività, Roland crea personalmente i primi prodotti usando pochi attrezzi e li porta in bicicletta alla stazione ferroviaria del suo paese per spedirli ai clienti. Il primo impiegato viene assunto nel 1964.

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Vic Firth Drum Sticks from Musikmesse

Everett “Vic” Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963. The company bills itself as the world’s largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company’s products are manufactured in Newport, Maine. On December 20, 2010, it was announced that Vic Firth, Inc. had merged with Avedis Zildjian Company. According to the announcement, both companies will continue to run autonomously.

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Dream cymbals

Owning a Dream cymbal is a relationship of discovery and innovation, creativity and loyalty. These are the instruments that allow you to explore what YOUR DREAMS sound like. Every one of the cymbals and gongs are hand-forged with ancient traditions of mixing fire and hammering bronze with craftsmanship to create a unique work of art, as individual and unique as your playing.

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Istanbul Mehmet Cymbals Rick Latham Signature

The Istanbul brand name was adopted by a cymbal works established by two cymbalsmiths, Mehmet Tamdeger and Agop Tomurcuk. At that time, they had over three decades of cymbal making experience. Mehmet and Agop named their company after the city that has been home to the epitome of high quality cymbals for many, many years: Istanbul. These cymbals were first exported to the U.S. in 1984, first under the name “Zildjiler”, and soon afterwards as “Istanbul”. Both craftsmen signed each cymbal and many of these cymbals are now collectors’ items.

After Agop Tomurcuk’s unexpected death in July 1996, Mehmet decided to continue the production of cymbals under his own name, İstanbul Mehmet. A lot has changed since then, but his belief in the richness and the character of a handmade cymbal will always remain. Machines don’t have ears. That’s why we continue to make our cymbals according to the ancient tradition – with an open eye towards the music that’s being made now, and in the future.

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