A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO DRUMS
Skin Tight ’83 is our annual salute to drummers and their equipment. Perhaps at no time since we began our annual drum guide has so much diversified equipment been available to the drummer as in this year’s review. Names and addresses of companies have been provided with each piece of equipment reviewed, and we invite you to contact the manufacturers for more detailed information regarding their equipment.
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO DRUMS
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SKIN TIGHT '83
CReem
Dave Patrick
Skin Tight ’83 is our annual salute to drummers and their equipment. Perhaps at no time since we began our annual drum guide has so much diversified equipment been available to the drummer as in this year’s review. Names and addresses of companies have been provided with each piece of equipment reviewed, and we invite you to contact the manufacturers for more detailed information regarding their equipment.
GRETSCH (P.O. Box 1250, Gallatin, TN 37066) Gretsch is celebrating its centennial this year, and, as part of the celebration, they have introduced a limited Centennial Series of outfits which claim to be the “Rolls Royce” of the natural wood finish. Regular six-ply shells are enhanced with centennial finishes, birdseye maple, Car pathian elm, and burl walnut. The series comes with triple-brass plated hardware plus hoops on the shells and tom holders as standard equipment. Reflective gold mylar heads are also standard. This “collector series” will be limited to 100 outfits, regardless of finish or outfit configuration. Each drum is numbered with a commemorative brass plaque and an embroidered Gretsch Centennial satin jacket comes with each outfit.