(Sound trumpets)!!!!!
Today's the big day I get to say "THEY'RE HERE!!!"
Wes and I picked up the new drums last wednesday and we handed them out saturday.
Personally I couldn't be happier with the look, and sound, these new instruments bring to the band.
It's a big change, the colour choice was purely meant to make these drums stand out, and that they shall.
It's also nice to work with an instrument that is in top condition. You want the snares to go up, turn the height adjustment the right way and they go up, no guess work.
I started tuning my drum as early as Wednesday night. I had a gig and though I took both drums I spent most of the night with my Pearl tuning and cranking. Just seeing how far it would go for me.
It reacted beautifully.
By saturday it almost sounded decent. I'm quite pleased.
The other side to this is getting to see how proud it made the corp. They work very very hard on their music and it was nice to reward them with instruments of the same calibre.
We topped it all off with a bass drum christening saturday night.
Check the pictures from our first few days. Obviously there will be an actual in uniforms nice picture taken eventually, but until them i'm a proud papa showing off my new babies.....
All 17 of them.. take that John and Kate plus 8.
Anyways stop by practice tuesday any time if you wanna see the new gear.
Cheers,
Sean
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