Finn's drum kit is currently supplied by Slingerland ; his cymbals are a variety of Sabians.

Classic surf drum kits tended to be Rogers, Ludwig, Gretsch or Slingerland.

Bun E. Carlos has played with many different commercial drum accessories, including Ludwig and Slingerland Radio King drums, Zildjian cymbals, rare Billy Gladstone snare drums, and Capella drum sticks.

One of his drum sets, a Slingerland inscribed with Benny Goodman's and Krupa's initials, is preserved at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D. C.

In 1957, intrigued by the sound of a kind of drum made by Leedy ( then owned by Slingerland ), he had a line made for him that also became popular with other drummers.

The two higher lines of drum models, Imperial Star and Royal Star, were introduced to the American market and were successful lower-cost drums competing against more expensive American-made drums offered by Rogers, Ludwig, and Slingerland at the time.

Neil Peart Neil Peart used a single Swiv-o-Matic tom holder on his large Slingerland Slingerland Drum Company and Tama Tama Drums drum kits through the mid 1980s, in order to position a tom-tom directly over the center of one of his bass drums.

The Slingerland Drum Company is a historic drum company that is linked to the rich history of jazz drumming.

The first Slingerland drum kits came out in 1928.

Slingerland still exists and offers a variety of drum sets, including Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich signature sets.

The popularity of the old Slingerland Radio King snare drum is evidenced by myriad professional drummers that still use the snare in 2010, despite endorsing other brands.

An interesting departure from the standard Slingerland product line occurred during World War II, when wood was used to manufacture drum parts that had traditionally been made of brass, chrome, nickel, and steel.

The Rock and Roll era of the 1960s and 1970s were good times for many American drum companies, including Slingerland.

By the 1970s, the Slingerland line of marching equipment had become very popular in marching bands, colleges, and drum corps.

During the late 1970s, Slingerland introduced its TDR marching snare drum, with a novel strainer and synthetic-gut snare that produced a distinctive sound.

Famous drum corps such as the 27th Lancers of Revere, Massachusetts, the Bridgemen of Bayonne N. J., the Pittsburgh Royal Crusaders ; and the General Butler Vagabonds all used Slingerland equipment in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

By 1936, the Slingerland company introduced a wooden solid body electric model.

The company remained in the Slingerland family until 1970.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Slingerland changed ownership multiple times until it was acquired from Gretsch by the Gibson musical instruments company in 1994.

After introducing the Magnum series in the late 1970s, Slingerland lost its footing, and the company folded.

In the late ' 90s, the Slingerland name was revived by Gibson. They are a much smaller company, with a much smaller market share than they had in the glory days, when the Slingerland name was strong and widely recognized.

In the early 1980s, Slingerland was gaining significant market share, but the company was sold, and corporate finances fell apart.

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In 2010, Front Line Assembly, with new members Jeremy Inkel and Jared Slingerland, released a new single, Shifting Through the Lens ( released 28 May 2010 ), and album, Improvised Electronic Device ( released 25 June 2010 ), the latter also available as a a deluxe edition featuring two extra tracks ( only available as a digital release ).

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The Deagan operation was purchased by Slingerland Drum, division of Conn, division of Mcmillan, and ultimately by the Yamaha Corporation.

Slingerland's main competitor, the Ludwig Drum Company, had the advantage of being endorsed by Ringo Starr, but Slingerland, too, produced high-quality drums in this era and had robust sales, battling Ludwig for first place.

The dark, overtone-rich sound of these rather lightweight cymbals, combined with the rich, warm sound of his wood-shell drums ( he almost exclusively played Gretsch drums, although in later years was playing Slingerland drums ) equipped with natural calfskin top heads ( again, Lewis was a purist ), using regular mylar heads on the bottom, exuded a veritable treasure trove of sound.

Another late -' 70s innovation was the Slingerland cutaway multi-tenors that were carried in trios, quad, or quint arrangements.

For many years, Slingerland drums were associated with such jazz drumming greats as Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, who both had Slingerland drums named after them ; another notable Jazz drummer from the newer generation was Weather Report's Peter Erskine.

In years past he was an endorser for such companies as Premier, Slingerland, and Yamaha Drums.

In the 1930s, Krupa prominently featured Slingerland drums.

Together, they recruited Crispin Akerman on guitar, Don Meharry on bass guitar and Guy Slingerland on drums through a series of advertisements.

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Manufacturing of the drums has been ceased, and Slingerland drums are no longer available.

Slingerland marching drums were produced as early as the 1920s.

Tre Cool of Green Day and Ray Mehlbaum of Automatic 7 endorsed Slingerland drums in the late 1990s.

Rick Brainer of Code of Ethics and currently with Tommy Steele, AJ Nester of Foreign Policy still uses Slingerland drums to this day.

In the 1960s Ludwig, Rogers and Slingerland were being sold in greater number than Premier drums.

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At Krupa's urging, Slingerland developed tom-toms with tuneable top and bottom heads, which immediately became important elements of virtually every drummer's set-up.

Some scholars such as Craig A. Evans, John Meier and Craig S. Keener see it as a likely reference to Jesus Others such as Stephen Benko and H. Dixon Slingerland see it as having little or no historical value.

At age 17, he triumphed over 40, 000 drummers to win the Slingerland National Gene Krupa contest.

In 2009-10, Rennie played a character named Jeff Slingerland aka Dr. Maurice Raynaud in ABC series FlashForward.

Starting with Think Tank, he began using a Slingerland kit which he uses up to this day.