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info    updated 8/6/2009

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AATMI Djembe

Toulouse, France

Ace Bodhrans

Ace Bodhráns by Mance Grady , Rhode Island, USA

AceTone

Pre Roland brand name.

acetone drum machine rhythm ace

Active

Entry level drums?

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Active sname drum

Adam

Adam The Atomic Sound 1980s Made in Taiwan

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Adam The Atomic Sound drum badge 1980s

Adonis

Adonis Custom Drums, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Adonis Pricelist 2000 (Wayback machine)

Adonis Drums FAQ 2003

Advance See George Way

African American Drum Company

myspace page

Ahead

Ahead snare reviews

Ahead snare drum

Ajaha

Ajaha was a cymbal maker from 1910s through the 1970s. [Source: wikipedia]

Ajax

Boosey and Hawkes, Ajax.

http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/ajax.html

http://www.drumarchive.com/Ajax/

Images 1940s eBay: 1970s

Ajax drum label Boosey and Hawkes Ajax badge

AK Drums Metl shell snare drums, Olang, Italy

Alejian

Alejian were a house or stencil brand made by Zildjian. [Source: Cymbaholic]

http://www.vintagecymbalguide.com/alejion.html

Alesis Electronic drum kits and drum machines.

Allegra

Allegra Drum crafters of Oregon, USA.

Dave Peterson's original company, Marching Music Ltd.-APT (Advanced Percussion Technology), was founded in 1976, and sold in 1997.
He then supplied marching hardware to the Slingerland Drum Company in Niles Illinois in 1980.
In 1989, Dave was contracted by HSS marketing to produce Slingerland marching percussion and accessories, plus other vintage and classic reproductions produced in Dave's southern Illinois production plant (Advanced Percussion Technologies).
HSS was the worldwide distributor of Slingerland products through an exclusive licensing agreement with Fred Gretsch until 1992 when the Slingerland brand name was sold to Gibson.
Other brands built in the Advanced Percussion Technologies were:
Purcussion USA Maple Drums.
Rhythm Art Drums, for St. Louis Music.
Dynasty Marching Percussion. [Source: Allegra]

Alternate Mode

Drum and mallet controllers, Chicopee, Massachusets, USA

American Custom

American Custom were made 1972-1976. The drums were 9 ply shells, name badges are silver with black handwriting reading A.C.
All parts were imported from Japan, and assembled at West Coast drums. [Source: Vintage Drum Forum]

Animal

Animal custom drums, UK.

"Animal official started trading in 2006. Where based in Lofthouse, Wakefield which is in Yorkshire, UK.

We manufacture our shells in house.
We don't currently serial code our products, although there is a one off snare with a badge with Serial number 0001 floating around somewhere, this was done to celebrate the launch our our retail range, the Artemis Series.

We are having new badges designed at the minute which will include some form of identification, although where not sure what form that will take at yet.

Our very early drums had a rectangle band with Yellow writing on, the ones we have used for the last year or so have Black text." [Source: Carl, Animal Custom Drums, email 12/2/2009]

Apollo

 

http://www.drumarchive.com/Apollo/

Aria

http://www.drumarchive.com/aria/

Arbiter Autotune

 

1975-2001. Ivor Arbiter, UK

Some info from the internet archive - Arbiter USA website early 2000s

Arbiter pricelist 2001 USA

Arbiter one touch tuning

Arbiter kits and snares

other Arbiter resources

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/autotune/

http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/arbiter.html

http://www.drumarchive.com/Arbiter/

Art Custom Drums

France

Artisan Percussion

Titanium snare drums, Made in the USA

Asba

The Asba company was started by Alfred Boudard in 1928. Originally called "Alfred and Simone Boudard, Accessories", the Asba company was located in Brevannes near Paris. Their drums were hand-built.  The French Company went out of business in 1981.

Asba drums were made of wood, acrylic ("Altuglas"), steel, polyester (fibreglass?) or a wood-composite material they called "Fibrecel". The drums featured flick-type ("baseball bat" style) dampers on snares and smaller toms and adjustable felt-strip dampers on floor toms and bass drums. These dampers were fixed to the shell at one end and stretched with an elastic-band-controlled mechanism at the other. It worked a lot better than it sounds. Other interesting design features included air-holes that doubled as drum-key holders, straight floor tom legs and bass drum mounted boom cymbal stands. Finishes included cork veneer and a finish that I can only describe as the "curse of the thousand silver pillows". [Source: eBay]

http://www.drumarchive.com/asba/

http://www.vistalites.com/other/asba.htm

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Ashton

Ashton drum kits - value line made in China?

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Aural Austria

Autocrat

http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/autocrat.html

http://www.dmdrums.co.uk/UKdrumhistory.htm

Autocrat 1940s engravings eBay:

Avedis

Made in USA. Avedis Zildjian

see Zildjian

Axis Percussion

Drums pedals and accessories. Made in USA

Ayotte

Established 1982, Vancouver, Canada

Azco

Azco cymbals, made in Canada.

The Azco factory was built in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada in 1968 by Zildjian. [Source: The cymbal book,  By Hugo Pinksterboer, Rick Mattingly ]

They produced Zilco -budget cymbals for Zildjian, as well as most of the K Zildjian cymbals of the time. [Source: Pearl Forum]

Image Azco cymbal made 1968-1970 eBay:

Azuka