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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] |
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American Drum
Manufacturing Company |
The American
Drum Manufacturing Company is a family-owned timpani
manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado. Former Denver Symphony
Orchestra timpanist Walter Light, who built a custom set of
drums for himself, founded the company in 1950 when his
colleagues began asking him to build timpani for them. [Source:
wikipedia] |
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Anchor |
Shawn Skipper,
Owner-Designer-Builder Anchor Drum Company. Wilmington, North
Carolina, USA
"Anchor Drums began in Fall of
2008 and has been going full-steam ever since!
Everything is built here on the
eastern coast in Wilmington, North Carolina (USA) in our humble
little shop!
Dating Anchor Drums
Each build has a printed badge
inside with a serial number and each one is dated and signed. We
try to make everything we build as unique as possible for the
drummer! [Source: Shawn Skipper, email 19/1/2011]
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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]
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Apollo |
Apollo was a brand name of Kawaii
for guitar production. [Source:
Wikipedia]
Unsure whether this extends to drums.
http://www.drumarchive.com/Apollo/
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Aria |
http://www.drumarchive.com/aria/ |
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Arbiter Autotune
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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/
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Arbor |
Arbor drums are made in Taiwan.
Image eBay:
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Art Custom Drums |
France |
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Artisan Percussion |
Titanium snare drums, Made in the
USA
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Asba
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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
Image eBay:
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Ashton |
Ashton drum kits - value line made
in China?
Image eBay:
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Audition |
Image eBay:
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Aural |
Austria |
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Autocrat |
http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/autocrat.html
http://www.dmdrums.co.uk/UKdrumhistory.htm
Autocrat 1940s
engravings eBay:
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Avedis |
Made in USA. Avedis Zildjian
see Zildjian
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Axis Percussion |
Axis Percussion is a United States
company specializing in the manufacture of precision drum pedals
and drum hardware. [Source:
wikipedia] |
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Ayotte |
Ayotte Drums is a custom drum
company based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. It was
founded in 1982 by Ray Ayotte, who left the company to work with
Taye Drum company. [Source:
wikipeida]
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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:
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Azuka |
Azuka cymbals by Zildjian .
Image
Jerry Porter
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