... he answered a call for volunteers and ran to help push the boats. He had just crossed the river when a shell fragment hit his drum and broke it into pieces. With out missing a beat, he picked up a musket and began to fight…

...he pleaded with his mother to let him volunteer and “take the place of a man who can handle a musket.” His mother eventually did consent, and Charley soon joined the Eighth Michigan – Wandering Regiment…

...as the Confederate officer moved closer, Clem shouted out for him to surrender. Ignoring the boy, the Confederate officer came yet closer yelling, “Surrender you damned little Yankee!” Johnny fired at and killed the Colonel…

...real ‘old-school’. The e|drumline team pulled this from the archives of a one-room school house. We had to walk up hill, bare foot, through the snow just to get there. Check out the digitally remastered – Film Strip…

Jump into e|drumline’s flux-capacitor powered time machine for a look at a totally awesome Paiste ad from 1983!

As drumliners, traditional grip is a part of our rhythmic soul. Our drums may not hang from slings, but our connection to the drummers of years gone by is here to stay. Traditional grip is a gentle reminder of our drumming ancestors who paved the path to greatness.

Has anyone else noticed that marching percussion hasn’t changed much in the last 15 years? Of course music is harder, pits larger, drums lighter, but as for field lines… it’s all really the same. Everyone has snares, tenors, bass drums, and a few cymbals. Where is the imagination?

It wasn’t always this way. Let us take a little trip through marching percussion history.

Marching percussion dates…

Stingray Power Wedge Snare Drum – Red with white hardware and rims.All you youngsters in the audience have probably never seen a Stingray drum, so it may surprise you to learn that for a short time in the early 1990’s the company held a significant place in the world of marching percussion.

Pictures of the drumlines who marched Stingray drums. Stingray Percussion was a drum manufacturing company created by an actual marching percussionist. The Founder, Rick Rogers Jr., began with a simple dream: Offer the world a product unlike anything else on the market.

Pictures of Stingray Drums. Stingray Percussion was a drum manufacturing company created by an actual marching percussionist. The Founder, Rick Rogers Jr., began with a simple dream: Offer the world a product unlike anything else on the market.