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bikerjohn
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 17/08/2012 : 13:03:06
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Hi folks,
I remember in the early-mid 80's there were some drum heads around, yellowish in color with a raised criss-cross pattern. they were an almost solid plastic, must have been pre-tension-ed cos I don't think you could tune them. ....Any ideas what they were called or where they may be got?
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Prog
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 17/08/2012 : 13:06:28
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Welcome to the forum.
Pre-tensioned sounds like Remo PTS but the rest of your description doesn't match. |
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Prog
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United Kingdom
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hat trick
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United Kingdom
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rytenuff
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United Kingdom
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AndyC
Advanced Contributer
Spain
345 Posts |
Posted - 17/08/2012 : 15:21:33
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Yup Kevlar.
As demonstration at a drum clinic once, they put one on a snare, tuned it, Drilled a hole with a Black and decker, and it barely affected the sound at all.
Bleedin' useless with Brushes though!
Plastic brushes came out at around this time, people said that the two things were related. New type of head needed that type of brush, and many people though that soon all heads would be made like that.
Andy
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Bob Henrit
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United Kingdom
63 Posts |
Posted - 17/08/2012 : 16:16:34
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| Bear Percussion made the heads but I'm not certain Peter de Bear is still doing them. I had a quick look around the web and he's listed on various sites but they don't appear to join to him. The biggest problem with the heads is/was they last a very long time (even with holes in them) which is a great marketing ploy but not exactly grounds for getting rich quick from repeat sales. He's a great guy though and really good company with fabulous stories about the cinematic side of his life! The alternatives to Bear drumheads were/are Canasonic and Duraline. |
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gdrumfoot
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United Kingdom
996 Posts |
Posted - 17/08/2012 : 16:52:49
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| I have some unused Bear heads somewhere, bought 'em at a clinic/show for use on a kit for teaching, never got around to fitting them. Not sure what sizes but faily certain no bass head. |
Black Country drum technique = Gi'e it sum 'Ommer!
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bikerjohn
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/08/2012 : 10:20:04
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Thanks guys, the Kevlar idea seems most likely. now all I've got to do is find some!!
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bikerjohn
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18/08/2012 : 10:23:18
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12", 13", 14"x2 and 16"
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Captain Bubble
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 08:41:41
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| Premier made or sold a kevlar marching head and I bought one out of interest for my kit snare drum. Very dry, not really my cup of aramid fibre. |
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lee haydn
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 10:27:21
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| I vaguely remember a head like that, why do you want a set of those in particular? |
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AndyC
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Spain
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 13:04:50
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The other thing about those heads, (and Canasonic rings a bell as the brand I saw,) was that they were a woven fabric. If you held them up to your mouth you could breath through them.
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lee haydn
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 14:27:59
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| Those are not how i remember the one/ones i saw Andy, in fact, thinking about it, it just may have been on a marching snare drum, it was definitely a "creamy" sort of colour and the surface was tiny squares in texture,, |
Ludwig Maple Classic (Green Sparkle) + LM400
Sabian HH and Paiste Stanbul vintage
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davidh
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 15:12:04
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Andante http://andantedrums.co.uk/ pipe band drums do a CoreTec woven head and Remo CyberMax is similar but these are cranked down to serious tension (20 hex bolts on the top head).
We were playing them last week at the Olympic Closing ceremony - if you were very very sharp-eyed you might have seen about 2 or 3 seconds and fleetingly heard a pipe band at the end of Eric Idle's slot. We had six side drummers playing Andantes using CoreTec heads. |
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bikerjohn
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/08/2012 : 19:54:57
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Hmmm! They didn't seem like woven fabric at all, like I say, almost solid plastic with a very pronounced, deep square pattern, not at all smooth. Extremely bright and quite loud. That's why I want em really, Bright and Loud. Twas like hitting a semi-solid head.
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mcghee
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United Kingdom
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