Bang on your drum

Advantages: Cheap and cheerful
Disadvantages: Snare stand a bit flimsy

...I own a Hohner LEX 5-piece drum kit. I bought it a couple of years ago for £300. This included Hi-hats and a crash/ride cymbal. This drum kit is a standard 5 piece kit, consisting of a bass drum, a floor tom, two mid toms and a snare. Included was a snare stand, and a cymbal stand. For the price the kit is surprisingly well made, with the insides of the drums smooth, and the outside finished in a shiny black laquer. There is a label on each of the drums with the make, Hohner, the model, LEX, and saying that it was made in Taiwan. All of the hardware, with the exception of the snare stand is sturdy. The two toms are affixed to the bass drum on two l-shaped brackets. The angle and height of the drums can be altered, and once satisfied, you can lock them in place using the drum key provided. The snare stand is not really very...

Cdm 15.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Hohner Drum 5 Piece Kit

Xplore your creativity :D

Advantages: Sound, looks, quality, weight, durability
Disadvantages: It's not a roland? :P

...I had this kit bought for me on my 21st Birthday after being let down by the ION ED01 kit a few years previous. This kit is fantastic, admittedly a little too expensive but you still get a good sound, a nice drumming experience and a generally very responsive all round kit. The pre-sets are great, the ability to set up double-bass is wicked, the metronome is an added bonus and the coolest thing of all is the ability to jack your own music straight into the kit from your computer or other music device. There are several slots open on the end of the list of pre-set kits for you to build your own kits as well, which I've done loads of times, really fun! All round great kit for intermediate players and easy to move and store :)...

RenoXcore 23.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Yamaha DTXPlorer Electronic Drum Kit

tap tap drum drum tap a tune on this drum

Advantages: children love it
Disadvantages: noise

...The picture on this category is not the correct one for the tap a tune drum I will see iof I can remedy that , Tap tap, tap a tune on this baby piano baby. You can buy this toy for £9.99p at most stores look online these are so many http://www.mailorderexpress.com/LittleTikesBaby Tap-A-TunePiano.asp, and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Tap-A-Tune-Piano/dp/B 00002QUNX do. This toy is suitable for a child aged between 6 months and 3 years old depending on their development. We have this toy in a special needs school Now this tunefull toy is made of plastic its very strong. The piano is red with a white keyboard. There are no legs on this grand piano as the shape of this toy is like a piano. It measures about 8" x 8" x 4". So your child can carry this around and you could take it to granny to show of your Childs musical...

mumsymary 19.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Little Tikes Tap a Tune Drum

Tap your feet to the electric beat

Advantages: cheap, good headphones
Disadvantages: not realistic bad pedals and sticks

...I got this drum set about a year ago, it's my first drum kit and i have to say quite good for the price. set up is easy if you follow the well drawn book, just a matter of attaching some clamps putting poles in and tightening things, the control box for this is a bit too complicated for my liking and the instructions for that don't help either. The drum pads: the drum pads are all the same size and can be positioned wherever you want on the kit, they are also touch responsive which makes for a more realistic feel. Drum pedals: the drum pedals are way too sensitive you have to either have your foot pushed hard down on it or not on it at all and when you do want to play it you just push them the lightest bit. The sticks : the drum sticks included are horribly light and a horrible wood it's like holding plywood. The head phones...

sceneguy 20.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ion IED01 Electronic Drum Kit

Are you smiling at this drum

Advantages: good for motor control and babies attention
Disadvantages: noise

...Smile at this drum, ~~~~~~~~~~~ This smile drum is one I have played with at work. It may not be what immediately pops into your head as a drum, but this is what it is it's a smile drum. This toy/musical instrument is a bit like a traditional hand mirror in shape. It has a long cylindrical handle with a drum circle at the top. The drum is just a drumming fabric stretched across the circle. The drum has a smiley face printed on it, it measures 20cm across. Young babies and children always respond well to a face on a toy the two eyes and mouth. The smile face printed on this drum is rather appealing. Attached either side to the coloured plastic frame that circles the drumming fabric are two beads that are attached with a piece of string. This drum is made in pink, y yellow, orange, or green To play this drum...

mumsymary 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Toyday Smile Drum

Fat Kit Kat

Advantages: Taste, quality, Size, Filling
Disadvantages: ...none

...Having just eaten a Kit Kat Chunky Caramel it seems I'm eating these in the wrong order, but the Kit Kat chunky is another of the now rather extended Kit Kat brand chocolate bars by Nestle. The idea of a ?chunky? Kit Kat is that it's thicker than a normal one with much more wafer in the centre making up the vast part of it's bulk. The bar looks more like a Yorkie than a typical 2 (or 4) finger Kit Kat in general shape though it keeps the red of the Kit Kat we all know and love, the Kit Kat logo and the Kit Kat biscuit formula. Nutritional Information (per 50g bar) 261 Calories 3.1g Protein 31.6g Carbohydrates 13.4g Fat Sorry for putting that so early into the review but with Kit Kats (and Nestle in general) not having the treat wise guide on them, it's actually a struggle to read the nutrition details due to the fact I...

iamasadlittleboy 17.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nestlé Kit Kat Chunky

Great looking, sounding drum kit for fair price...

Advantages: Price, lacquered, looks great, sounds even better, easy to get hold of extra features
Disadvantages: Remo U2 head?s that come with the kit are disappointing, but you can?t have everything?

...The Yamaha Stage custom is a very well built kit, which equally sounds and looks fantastic. To the advantage of the customer it ranges at a price a lot lower than your average Yamaha drum kit but still is of the original Yamaha quality. I have owned the Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage for a year now and I haven?t looked back once. I bought it as a 7 piece in a metallic green with hardware. It now also has Paiste Signature cymbals and a Pearl double bass drum pedal also. But if you bought it new you would pay £690 for it. This is only with 3 toms though, with mine I have 5. Y.E.S.S. ball claps which come with the kit are the best I have seen, they allow the player to move the toms in to any position which is required which normal mounts just do not allow you to do. The Y.E.S.S. clamps are also designed so there is as little as...

stevedamouth 14.07.2002 (15.07.2002) · Read review
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Review of Yamaha Stage Custom Drumkit

Excellent and Noisy Fun with Fun with a Drum

Advantages: Educational, well built, inexpensive, good variety of instruments
Disadvantages: Very, very loud, maracas slightly too small

...I bought this product for my son from our local supermarket. Although he was only 14 months at the time he has shown a real love of musical instruments and I wanted to steer him away from my kitchen pans and long-loved recorder to something of his own which would give him the same joys and still be educational. From the moment I took it out of the packaging he wanted to get his hands on it and spent the first hour drumming solidly, enjoying every minute of it. It was a little harder for him to switch from blowing down the recorder to using the harmonica but once he'd made that first note he had no troubles and he was delighted with the tambourine. The maracas are fairly small (perfect for his little hands but I expect he would soon grow out of them) but the drum and tambourine are a nice size and will last well past his third birthday...

Morgelyn 25.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of First Act Fun with a drum - Junior Drum Pack

The rumbling drums of Japan

Advantages: Variety of style, detailed booklet
Disadvantages: I cannot think of any

...A terrific blend of plucked Tsugaru Shamisen and feral drums. Wadaiko Matsuriza is a professional group from Hachioji, composed of twenty-one performers (mostly on drums). The power delivered by twenty-odd drums is very impressive. Tempestuous, electric, calculated and arousing would all be perfect words to describe Wadaiko Matsuriza. If you are not familiar with Japanese Taiko drums, this is the best place to start. Wadaiko Matsuriza manage to create a very intertaining style of folklore, mostly upbeat. This CD was released in 2002. Wadaiko Matsuriza have been touring since 1996. The group uses 3 distinct instruments: The Taiko drum, the Tsugaru Shamisen (the Japanese Banjo - not to be mistaken for the Koto instrument) and also the Horagai, the latter being a conch-shell trumpet. Gaku makes use of a Chappa too, which is...

gantzgraf 12.08.2006 (11.09.2006) · Read review
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Review of Japanese Drums - Wa Dai Ko Matsuriza

A buyers Guide to Drum Kits

Advantages: Pearl Export is my choice
Disadvantages: none

...Well, yes, the title does describe the definition of the drum kit very well, but are you getting what you pay for? Different drummers will tell you different stories about what is good and what is not. My first instrument is not my drums. Its about my 3rd Instrument behind the Bass and Guitar. Im still a competant drummer though and could easily perform with most local bands. I have therefore used a variety of kits and sets with various bands around during my 13 year performing career. I first got into drumming after trying it out during a break in rehearsal in my first band at the age of 14. I loved it and soon wanted a kit. I was fortunate enough to be in a position that my mum bought me a starter kit. It cost £299 and was made by Mirage. Now, for your first purchase, you should aim low. Reason being 3 fold...

andycharger 19.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Pearl Export Drumkit