Noble & Cooley

Noble & Cooley ("N & C") is a company for the manufacture of fine drums, which is in Granville in Hampden County, Massachusetts, home. The manufactory is mainly known for their high quality, exclusive snare drums.

History

The company was founded in 1854 by " Silas Noble " and " James Cooley ," which began in the domestic kitchen of the farmhouse of the Nobles to build marching drums for the U.S. Army. In the first year you put 631 drums ago. After a few weeks they moved into their own building and, two years later, their first factory.

For the election campaign of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, they built him a drum made of slats of his native wood fence that was used during various campaign events. During the American Civil War, they produced drums for the Army of Northern States and soon the company grew tremendously zoom and exceeded in 1873 the production of 100,000 drums. The company introduced until the end of the 19th century produced toy drums for children.

In the early 1980s, Jay Jones ( great-great- grandson of founder James Cooley ) and professional drums for musicians decided besides the traditional military drums produce. He worked there with the designer Bob Gatzen closely, and set up an old steam - wood bending machine, which had once survived a fire in the company in 1889.

1983 Noble & Cooley presented his " SS Classic solid shell snare drums" before, snare drums with solid wood boiler. Since then, the company has launched numerous other snare drum models with wood or metal boiler, as well as complete drum sets on the market.

1989 and 2003 Noble & Cooley worked with the traditional Zildjian Cymbal manufacturers to produce exclusive snare drums from real Beck bronze. These drums were only produced in limited editions and became highly begeherten collectibles.

Over the years ↔ multiple extensions were built with advanced production equipment. The company still at the original location of its foundation.

A few years ago a museum that " Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation " was opened in the historic corporate buildings in which the history of the place Granville during the American Civil War as well as the innovation and development of the American northern states are shown.

The company has announced its historic "Contract Drum" hang up from 2011 to 2014 in a small limited series again and be provided with a Certificate of Authenticity that fidelity to confirm. These drums possessed a bent under steam boiler made ​​of plywood (ash), a tire of the harder oak, on the ropes and leather cuffs with the skins of calfskin were tuned. It was once the standard instrument of the Union Army of the Northern States.

Current product range

  • SS Classic Snare - the first, up to now produced N & C - Snare of 1983.
  • Alloy Classic snare drums - drums with a cast and machined aluminum boiler.
  • Snares SE - the SE standing for " Special Edition".
  • CD Maples - highly exclusive drums which are made only to order, according to specific customer requirements.
  • CD Snares - the "CD series" associated Snare Drums.
  • Solid Oak Shell Kits - Development of a new series of complete drum sets made ​​of oak.

Former products

  • Studio Classic Series - drums and percussion, which represented an entry-level series for high-quality drums.
  • Horizon Series - drums 6 -ply maple plywood, of which four layers of "horizontal" took place in the grain and gave the series its name.
  • Star Series - produced from 1987 drum series. The difference to "Horizon Series " opening gap in the fact that they had a massive steam bent maple boiler. Were striking, especially those for the 1980s unusually low boiler depths of the drums of 6 "x10 ", 6 " x12 ", 6 " x13 ", 7 " x14 " and 8 " x16". This was due to technical grounds, since they are produced on the same machines as the snare drums. Only the series for the corresponding, conventionally produced bass drum had a normal cup depth.

Known user (selection)

  • Bill Stevenson, Descendents, Only Crime
  • Mike Pedicone The Bled
  • Rare Herman Bell, Scorpions
  • Alex Van Halen, Van Halen
  • Steve White (Session Legend)
  • Phil Collins (plays 3 7/8x14 " SS Classic Piccolo since it came on the market )
  • ( Has used a 7x14 SS Classic for $ 600 extra for the recordings of Dookie bought in 1993. ) Tré Cool, Green Day
  • Chris Whitten (Paul McCartney World Tour 1989/1990 ) ( Dire Straits tour 1992/1993 )
Bentwood Bill Stevenson (musician) Herman Rarebell
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