The Barn -

Here's all our old news, archived for reading.

Taff is giving the new BDB Snare a road test in Copenhagen then Norway and then maybe Damascus, so does he like it ?

"I'm lost for words..the snare was the best I've ever played and I mean that, I don't know how you do it, you really have "the knack" and that is no bullshit! I did not do any tuning at all, I left it as you had tuned it, all I did was adjust the snare tension. I took the snare wires right off and slowly tightened them until I got that thump in my stomach, and did I get a THUMP - Wow not half! A real vintage woody sound, just perfect for my kind of music."

"I will take the "Beauty" with me next week to Norway, I am doing three big concerts where the rest of the band will be fully amplfied, but with that snare I will have no worries at all of not been heard."Everyone in the band commented about it, the trombonist who`s two sons play drums, said it was one of the best sounding and loudest snare he had ever heard"

Wow! check out the hoops on that.

It has to be said that Taff can make my BDB hoops
into something beautiful - another great job Taff - Cheers

Jam at the Top of the Barn:

"So - Steve, with your left foot - 'chick' and your right 'Boom'- Gottit?"

"And then just keep that going"

"Boom, chick - boom chick"

Oh ! - Taff's fitted his long awaited BDB hoops to his vintage snare

FineTuning of These monster bass drum hoops - Denmark bound
- Guess who? - involves running them around the block for a test
of strength!

And of course - The main event (Top secret! shhhhhh)
The Drum collaboration presents the world premier of their first project:

More of all that later ..............gotta get on with it!

Aha! - So I kinda forgot about this - the great suspended debate -
If there are any engineers out there please tell me why this works
when it has no right to?

Playing his BDB shell snare in the Danish Jazz Calender - taken at last year`s Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark.

That's a Camco -
and for all you guys who thought DW was cool -
in the 1970`s Drum Workshop bought all the Camco works, lock, stock and barrell
- loadsa cool stuff coming - Click on the pic or use the new menu link.

Barn Bash

So we had a little bash in the barn to keep warm - can never find a bass player at short notice!
Anyway we had a hoot, thanks to Tom,Rich,Jack and James for bearing with this old grey git.
Click Here For Pictures

Christmas pressie
Bit of a bargain on ebay - honestly! So I bought myself a present - This little gem is in perfect condition - just needs a snare and a polish.
It's a "Boosey & Co Ltd" - number 14167 - If anyone can offer any more info - please let me know.

More news from bonnie Scotland - Lenny has sent some
cool pictures of his new kit. We've set up a drummers page because
there is more to come!

Meanwhile drool over this little lot - Yup he made it !
It's not DW - HONEST!

Lenny also introduced me to www.stdrums.de -
That's Gerd Stegner who has every little thing you've previously
ordered from The US - Top site and fast response.

Blimey just when I thought -That's it for the week!
Check out Taff's latest setup - that's a BDB tom shell and hoops
alongside a BDB shell snare - I only wish I'd made that Bass drum!

Great pictures, as alway from Taff
who also finds time to learn HTML
and rebuild his new look website -
www.tafflloyd.com
It's not quite finished-
but give him your support.

Cheers - Bob

so Here's BIX the cat ........oh yeah and Taff in a live recording session with "New Orleans Gumbo" in Denmark.

The workshop has a new piece of kit - Ok it's another pillar drill!
We just can't refuse them a good home.

But this one is different - It's 3 phase Wow the Barn gets Heavy!
Salvaged from another drum company - we've had an "invertor" fitted by Coulters Electrical - Letchworth,Herts.
Thanks to Ray for sorting this out and saving another great piece of hardware from the skip.

Rod's gone to Finland, he tells me he's visiting friends but my
suspicion is he's checking out Finnish Plywood!
Rod is taking the build of his new snare drum very seriously -
each part is being marked out by Rod himself before we can drill -
and as for the wrap...!

Soaking up the Sunshine this fine November morning
Rod's "Deep" Piccolo has just been sanded flat and is
ready for the Bearing edges to be cut.
I love the lighting on this Pic -"Kind of Blue" ?

Under that "softer" inner layer is another 5 plies of Birch
4 of which are Tesselated.

Winter has arrived - So here's a lovely warm place to dream about.....
New Orleans -
Taff's been out there (again!)
during October He's taken some fantastic pictures that really set the scene -
but not without some fun and games with immigration......

gigging and recording, you can catch more detail on
his drummers page and ..........

This great picture from The Horniman museum in Forest Hill, London
A 1937 Carlton kit - I just love the colour.

I hope the Horniman will forgive the use of the picture - Also I should
mention the photographer is Heini Schneebeli

Anyway - check out the likeness to Paul's fantastic project below

Birch and Maple. At the Barn we use Birch - but here's my current favourite website -
a celebration of Maple and some American classics.


www.coopersvintagedrums.com

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