We just returned from PASIC 2010 held this year in Indianapolis. It was a tremendous show and a smashing success for us!
Thousands of percussionists checked out the wide range of super-high quality products on display in the Grover booth. Here's a short list of what percussionists drooled over: 13 models of tambourines, 10 models of triangles, 34 models of mallets, our new temple blocks, Spectrasound Mark Tree bar chimes, our new Titanium G3 Concert SD, plus much more!
Check out the December issue of Modern Drummer magazine (on the newsstands now). Our G3 snare drum was chosen as "snare-drum-of-the month"! Thanks MD...
Boston based percussionist Andrew Jones was recently gigging in New Orleans with Ronnie Spector, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the lead singer of the Ronettes. Andrew was using Grover
Model T2/GS German Silver tambourine. "I took the new tambourine to New Orleans this weekend and it was a hit. All the musicians were asking about it", Andrew recently told us.
Andrew joins the ranks of studio greats Jack Ashford (Motown), Craig Kampf (LA), Rich Redmond (Nashville), Alan Estes (LA studios) and others who appreciate the great musical sonorities produced by our tambourines.
In 1967, Mark Stevens invented the Mark Tree® bar chime, which has become an important member of the percussion batterie. Mark has been one of the busiest and most recorded percussionists in the LA studio scene for over 4 decades !
Our Spectrasound™ Mark Tree bar chimes are now shipping to select percussion retailers! Remember, Spectrasound bar chimes are the ONLY bar chimes good enough to be called Mark Tree bar chimes! Check our "Find A Dealer" feature to locate a Grover Pro dealer near you.
As a percussionist, often you have to perform on an unusual instrument. Interesting "instruments" I've had to play over the years include: brake drums, trash cans, breaking bottles, thunder sheet, coffee cans, railroad spikes, pool tubing, anvil, air raid siren, water cooler bottles, taxi horns, klaxon horn, all types of whistles, the inside of a grand piano, prayer stones, temple bells, tubaphone, church bells, etc., etc.
Last week, I was at Tanglewood playing with the Boston Symphony. Amongst other instruments, I got the chance to play a very large hammer (hitting a wooden box) in Berg's "Three Pieces For Orchestra". Everyone was careful not to upset me...I wonder why?
