Premier Sells Head Business

[Vdrummer]

I heard that Premier Drums has sold off it's head manufacturing
business and will no longer be making any heads including their pipe
band / marching Tendura heads. I heard this in a music store, where
the salesman had just returned from the NAMM show (the big music gear
event) in CA. I also read it on another newsgroup. Has anyone else
heard this? If so, we rudimental snare drummers had better stock up
now before the season gets going.

[Dan Radin]

I don't know whether Remo will be making the Tendura, but it would be
a shame if they didn't. It's a much better head than the Falam. Anyway, this
news is actually a few month old:
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Leicester, England - Premier Percussion, one of the world's leading
and longest established manufacturers of drums, timpani and tuned
percussion, is now fitting its new range of Everplay heads on all of its
drumsets and marching percussion products.
The Everplay brand is the result of a new partnership with Remo, the
world's most innovative name in drumheads for over 40 years, who are to
manufacture the entire range of Everplay heads for Premier. Remo's
unrivalled experience of working with polymer films coupled with their state
of the art manufacturing facilities and on-going product development has
provided the new Everplay brand with a pedigree from day one that is already
accepted, recognised and trusted by players throughout the world.

Premier's Marketing Director, Steve Jordan, explained the company's
decision to develop the Everplay range as "One of strategic importance to
the Premier brand, its players, dealers and distributors alike. There is no
doubt that by fitting the Remo made Everplay heads to all of our drum series
the 'out of the box' sound is what today's players have come to expect from
a leading drum manufacturer. Everplay heads make great drums sound as good
as they look and the 'Drumhead Made By Remo' part of the Everplay logo is
something that we are very proud of."

The Everplay range includes single ply clear and coated heads in
different weights, double ply drumset and marching heads as well as bass
drum batter and display heads. The complete range is available over the
counter for the loose drumhead / after sales market.

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[Brandon Paluzzi]

Actually, the word on the street is that the new Evans marching head (that
will be replacing the first generation MX batter) is the old Premier
Tendura.

My line is "beta-testing" the head in the next few months, so I'll give a
review once we get them.

Brandon

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[Anonymous]

Vdrummer wrote in message ...

I'm going to be in Inverness sometime soon so I'll be buying some more of my
faves - the Premier SD Sensitive Batter coated snare drum head, 14".

Nothing comes close, in my experience.

I wonder if this Everplay range will sound as good ?

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[Stuart McConaghy]

in article a5if5d$cnd$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk on 27-2-02 6:09 AM,
Anonymous at gu...@anonymous.com posted for all the world to see:

>
> Vdrummer wrote in message ...
>> I heard that Premier Drums has sold off it's head manufacturing
>> business and will no longer be making any heads including their pipe
>> band / marching Tendura heads. I heard this in a music store, where
>> the salesman had just returned from the NAMM show (the big music gear
>> event) in CA. I also read it on another newsgroup. Has anyone else
>> heard this? If so, we rudimental snare drummers had better stock up
>> now before the season gets going.
>
> I'm going to be in Inverness sometime soon so I'll be buying some more of my
> faves - the Premier SD Sensitive Batter coated snare drum head, 14".
>
> Nothing comes close, in my experience.
>
> I wonder if this Everplay range will sound as good ?
>

I've always loved the SD snare batters, and the Morgenstein heads just sing
on toms. It'd be a shame if they stopped making them, or even worse,
replaced them with Remo-made low-quality bullcrap.

Stuart McConaghy - Proud endorser of Canopus Drums
mailto:stuartm...@mac.com

"I think people who can live their life in music are telling the world: 'You
can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't
need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best,'
and it's the part I give most willingly." - George Harrison, 1943-2001