This past weekend, I was able to check out the new Pearl MBS2000 Marching Bass Drum Stand while teaching the Percussion Ensemble at Villanova University and thought I would pass along my findings.
This stand was designed to be a lower priced alternative ($79.95) to Stadium Series Hardware ($150). There are no movable legs on this bass drum stand, but unless you are actually in the stands for a football game (and those stands are so narrow that the movable leg is needed), I can’t see many other reasons why this stand wouldn’t work.
Actually, the other reason I took one to practice to check out was because one of the two bell players in the Percussion Ensemble had to place the set of bells on top of chairs because we only had one X-style stand in the band room. I thought this MBS2000 stand could also double as a Bell/Glock stand, and it worked beautifully. This stand is made very well with memory locks at two positions, overall height (which can work for almost any size player) and angle of the three “arms” so they won’t slip and fall no matter what size drum you put into the cradle or even it it’s flat to work with a set of bells. The legs are able to be spread extra wide to help with balance of even a 32” Marching drum and has extra big rubber feet to help lessen slippage. With all those heavy duty features, you would think this thing weighs a ton, but it doesn’t. The overall weight is only a fraction more than the Stadium Series counterpart and actually would take up less room in a hardware or carry case.
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Spring has sprung here at Steve Weiss Music, Inc, despite the last gasp from ‘Ole Man Winter to dump what I hope is the last of the wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain into our region. No matter what weather you are “enjoying” right now, I hope you will check out all of the updates we have made to our site in the last few weeks.
We are proud to announce the addition of two new vendor partners to our lineup of products…Dynasty and Roland. With a complete line of Marching and Concert Percussion products, and a tremendous Artist lineup including the Blue Devils Drum Corp and their caption head Scott Johnson (also endorsed with Vic Firth and his newest product…the SSJ3 Practice Sticks) and Mark Ford (also endorsed by Innovative Percussion with his full line of signature mallets) the Coordinator of Percussion Activities at The University of North Texas in Denton, Dynasty is a company that we are looking forward to working with and know it will be a great addition to our complete line of Marching and Concert instrument offerings. In Roland, we officially add an area of the Percussion products that in the past, we only “dabbled” with. No matter if you’re in a Top 40 Cover Band, or a controlled Church playing environment, Electronic Percussion is here to stay, and Roland leads the way in this ever growing market. We are happy to offer our customers the chance to buy more than just a Dr. Beat from us.
In addition to new vendors, we have also updated and expanded the offerings in our Concert Instrument, Drum Heads, Marching Drums and World Percussion sections of our site. In Concert Instruments, we now have more choices and more spec information for every product…all of which are now priced. Our Drum Heads section now includes expanded Timpani Head and Concert Bass Drum choices, along with all of the “standards” in the Combo and Marching categories. Just like the Concert Instrument category, the Marching Drums category has received a “spring cleaning” with expanded selections, more spec details and are all priced to help you put your budget together for the Fall semester or give your parents a wish list for your upcoming graduation. We have added over 100 new items to our World Percussion Category led by expanded Conga and Bongo sections along with many new hand-held items that were just introduced in 2007.
With all of the positive things going on here at Steve Weiss Music, Inc., I would be remiss in not expressing my deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers to our friends and their families at Enterprise High School in Alabama, who are still trying to put their lives back together in the aftermath of a series of tornadoes that not only went through that area a few weeks ago, but directly hit the High School killing several students including a few from the music program. I spoke to Jason B. Smith last week and he told me they were trying to recover as much of their equipment as possible and were going to try and move ahead with their Indoor Percussion program for this semester. My thoughts and prayers are with them as they rebuild their lives and help to comfort those who have lost far more than a xylophone or drumstick.
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