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Want to save £1,200 ?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:12:30 +0000

We’ve just taken delivery of the new TD-12KX, and as promised we’re putting up a quick blog post to let you know. With improvements more or less across the board, including the mesh heads, the support frame and the module there is bound to be something to impress you.

TD-12KX Roland TD-12KX Electronic Drum Kit w Mesh Heads

If you want to look at a bit more information about the kit head on over to its product page by clicking here

To clear the shelves of it’s predecessor, and make room for the stock of the new ones, we have knocked a massive £1,200 off the standard retail price of the previous model, the TD-12KV with Black Pads. If you want to snap up a bargain on the last few we have remaining then head along to it’s product page by clicking here. Even though it’s the older model, thats still a whole lot of kit for not a lot of money!

NDC

Random as a box of frogs

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:16:20 +0000

We have just had about the most random sale you could think of…

The conversation went something like this:

Customer: Hi there, i need a snare..
Us: We have many *gesture at snare wall*
Us: What are you looking for, metal, wood, any particular sound?
Customer: Well, the sound doesnt really matter.
Us: Uhm, ok…..
Customer: My partner is going to make a cabinet out of it and replace the skins with wood inlayed with a cat tattoo…
Us: Ooook!

So, basically this guy’s girlfriend is Rosie Brown, an artist who makes some excellent bespoke cabinets and furniture with intricate inlaid designs from wood. The snare is going to have both skins replaced with one of her wooden designs.

As the snare is to be made into a cabinet instead of played, we half expected just a non-descript basic snare to be used, but no the customer suprised us yet again and went for a £340 Jimmy Degrasso Pearl signature model, in gold finish. Not often we get someone spending almost £350 on a snare and not even hitting it with a stick first!

Here is the snare he took away:

Pearl Jimmy Degrasso Snare

We’ve given the customer a card with our details on, and asked him to send us a picture of the snare when it’s finished, so we’ll make another post when we get that through.

In the mean time, if you want to look at some more of Rosie’s work you can do so by clicking here.

NDC

Counting down the days

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:19:54 +0000

We’re all sitting with bated breath here are Newcastle Drum Centre.

We’re awaiting a delivery coming in with a whole new set of electronic kits, such as the Yamaha DTX 900K and the DTX 950k, as well as the Roland TD-12KX. So if you’re a Yamaha fan or a Roland fan, we’re sure to have something in shortly to suit you!

A couple of quick videos to show you these awesome kits while we wait not so patiently…

Yamaha

Roland

If you want to be kept up to date on these two lovely kits, go over to our main online store site and use the sign up to newsletter box on the left hand side of the page.

NDC

Off to pastures new

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:15:07 +0000

We’re sad to see the departure of Harry Whatton, one of the Drum Centre members of staff. Harry has been with us for about 3 years now, and although he loves a bit of drumming and percussion his heart (and his degree) were always in the more arty side of things. Harry has been lucky enough to get a job as a painter of fine art, so we know he’s going to love it. We wish him all the best, and look forward to him dropping in for a coffee whenever he is in the area!

A farewell pint
Lovely Hair Clips	Hatted Harry	More Hair Clips

Harry is to ‘thank’ for some of the crazier point of sale sheets you might have seen dotted about the shop to advertise items on the shop floor. Some of the better ones are below for your amusement (click to enlarge):

NDC

Good Morrow Ladies And Gents

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:13:25 +0000

Ye olde Newcastle Drum Centre team

Good morrow fine people, we have foundeth archived photographs from the very first day of opening of ye Newcastle Drum Centre back in 1892 on a cold and blustery winter morn..

As ye can see, here be the team resplendent in all their glory, with top hats and firm stern poses as all gentlemen should comport themselves when having their photographs recorded for posterity.

Thou canst clicketh on the image to see it enlarged through whichcraft to display larger on your television set.

In the image you see:

Top left: Sir Graham of Robson
Top right: Daniel Ward Esquire
Botom left: Lord Harold Watton
Bottom right: Duke Banjamin Alldred III

The descendant of one of these fine fellows, Ben Alldred of the current Drum Centre staff is playing fine tunes and melodies this Sunday with his band Thea, purveyors of the finest in groove metal. If thou findeth thineself in the area of the Ouseburn this coming Sunday the 31st Of January in the year of our Lord 2010 then thou shouldst parktake of fine bevarages in the Tyne bar and hear Ben and his band thrashing out from 8pm onwards.

Meanwhile the Drum Centre is running along nicely, and we should have more updates for you later in the week with new kit from the Namm show, so tune in frequently!

NDC

It’s squealy good!

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:38:47 +0000

It’s been a long two months since we said goodbye to our last Pork Pie Little Squealer kit and now they’re back and better than ever. This time in stunning blood red sparkle high gloss lacquer which you really can see your face in! Classic pro quality chrome fittings with isolated rims mounts complete the sexy looks, as you can see below;

(click to enlarge)

Pork Pie Little Squealer - Blood Red	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Front View
Pork Pie Little Squealer - Bass Close Up	Pork Pie Little Squealer - Rack Tom Close Up

The sound – huge. Supplied with coated single ply heads the toms still manage to deliver a pre-EQ’d beef and resonance that sounds like it’s been through a recording studio already. Thin all maple shells and razor sharp bearing edges (the best in the business we’re told) like this are very hard to find on a kit of this price.

We all want one, would owning three drum kits be too much i have to ask myself?

If you want to see a bit more about it on the site, click here.

Dan / NDC

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A fond farewell

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:10:46 +0000

Recently we’ve been the happy recipients of a Drum Art snare drum, beautifully made using stave block construction and a Pandouk shell. Before we tell you any more about it, lets get to what you really want and show you a few photos of it:

Drumart Padouk Snare Close Up Shot

Drumart Padouk Snare Wide Shot

Drumart Padouk Snare Underneath Detail

As with everything we get in store, we like to give it a bit of a test run so we can be confident of what we are saying when talking to customers if they have any questions about something they want to buy. With the Drumart snare we gave it to Guy to put through it’s paces and report back on, and he had this to say:

“Having tried it out I can safely say that I’ve never experienced a drum with such a wide dynamic range. Although it was made with classical music in mind, it’s warm lows and crisp highs make it perfect for rock music and it reminiscent of classic 70s Ludwig and Gretsch snares. At over an inch thick the unusual shell really gives this snare quite some beef!”

We’re sad to see this test model go back to the supplier, but we really did enjoy having the chance to give it a try out while it was in the store. Thanks have to go to Pete at Proel for the loan of the snare and we’re happy to report that all Drum Art snares are now available to order with prices on application via Newcastle Drum Centre. Take a look at the Drum Art site and draw yourself up a wish list.

http://www.drumart.it/home_en.html

Happy Drumming, NDC!

Massive January Sale

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:34:10 +0000

If you’re on the Newcastle Drum Centre mailing list, then you will already know about the massive January sale we are currently running with excellent discounts across hundreds of products.

If you want to sign up to the mailing list to be informed of such offers in the future then simply send us a mail to ask.

If you just want to view the items on offer though, you can;

Cheers, NDC.

All welcome, go into the light!

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:35 +0000

We’ve had a busy couple of days in the drum centre, things are really gearing up for Christmas and kits are flying out the door. Don’t worry though, we’ve still got a huge stock of acoustic or electronic kits, as well as a huge selection of cymbals, sticks, heads and all the other addons you might be looking for.

Something else that has been keeping us busy is the installation of our new Sabian Brightwall, a vast improvement on our old Sabian display. Now you can really get up close and personal to the cymbals and get a good look at what you are buying, have a test of the various cymbals and make a selection from the wide range available.

As you can see from the pictures below though, when they called this thing a Brightwall, they were not tell ing any lies, we’ve had to hand out sunglasses to all of the staff and we’re considering starting a sideline in tanning booths with it.

(click to enlarge)

So if you’ve been thinking of buying some new cymbals, there has never been a better time to come and have a look at what is on offer in store.

Speaking about in store, you can tell the guys are all happy and excited for christmas, with Ben and Harry singing a duet of Chas & Dave’s Rabbit earlier on. They’ve not quite got it down 100% yet but if you’re in the shop you might even get treated to one of their rehersal renditions, a dubious pleasure indeed.

Big Zildjian Cymbal Delivery

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:40:15 +0000

We’ve got loads of lovely new Zildjian cymbals in stock today, including:

A superb 20″ Armand ride,

A stunning Armand Box set (including a free 18″ crash)

We’ve restocked our A Custom Rezo range, including the fantastic Rezo Pang Chinas…

There’s more Z3’s in stock too, we’ve got an extra few Rock crashes in stock now for you noisy devils out there.

The 20″ A custom ping ride is back in stock too. Plenty of stick definition and a great clean tone.

We’ve gone for an 18″ Oriental China Trash, which is just fearsome. A great add on to any live set up.

As well as all these, we’re back up to full stock on most of the Zildjian range as well as a great selection of K and K customs.

Speaking of cymbals, we’ve got one box set of Paiste PST 5 cymbals that we’re clearing out at just £189, which is pretty much half of the usual price. These are avilable on store on deals, so if you’re interest then give us a call!

Thats all for now, but we’re ordering new stock all the time so there is bound to be another update soon.

Everyone @ NDC