Drum Workshop
Drum Workshop (DW, DW Drums ) is an American manufacturer of high quality drum kits and accessories.
History
DW is in relation to other drumset manufacturers a young company. Opened in 1972, Don Lombardi, a 140 -square-foot teaching studio and called it " The Drum Workshop". Two years later, Lombardi began with his student John Good, establish the first hardware whose development took some time to complete. After buying the company Camco Drum Co. in 1977, which until then relatively unknown drum company "DW" developed more and more hardware, including Pedals for the bass drum and drum seats. She changed, after moving into a 230 -square-foot building, the company direction from the drum training to the production of drum sets.
1979 Drum Workshop was through advertisements in the magazine Modern Drummer, the company soon known. From 1980 until today developed DW always more hardware and high quality drum sets that are produced according to customer requirements of a wide range of woods and metals.
Today's image of the company
Today, DW is regarded as one of the noblest, but also the most expensive drums brands. Very popular is the already long existing Collector Series, which is still produced. This series gives the customer not only the possibility, type of wood and color of the hardware to the boilers, but also kind of paint whose color or a " foliation " select. The most popular is the hardware, especially the pedals for the bass drum.
DW is and was, inter alia, played by Jürgen Zöller (BAP ), The Rev ( Avenged Sevenfold ), Cobus Potgieter ( Ventura Lights ), Daniel Adair ( Nickelback ), Terry Bozzio, Terry McGowan, Chester Thompson, Sheila E., Tommy Lee ( Mötley Crüe ), Peter Criss (former KISS ), Neil Peart ( Rush ), Ulf Stricker ( independent), Nigel Olsson ( Elton John ), Peter Tobias ( Skafield ), Bertram Engel (Peter Maffay ), Steve Jocz ( Sum 41 ), Udo Lindenberg, Peter Erskine, Atom Willard ( Angels & Airwaves ) and Dominic Howard ( muse), Ginger Baker, Jordan Mancino ( As I Lay Dying ), Scott Travis ( Judas Priest ), Aaron Spears (Usher ), Tico Torres ( Bon Jovi ), Tony Royster Jr. (Jay Z ) and Thomas Pridgen (The Memorials ).