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  • March 1, 2012
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The distressed font indicates rockingness to me. Ever since reading T. Bruce Wittet’s piece about the drumming equivalent of the fusion mullet, the Remo Pinstripe, I’ve been sort of half-determined to try to them out […]

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Pinstripes reconsidered

  • January 27, 2012
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Here drummer and Modern Drummer writer T. Bruce Wittet takes another look at the now-humble Remo Pinstripe. For a good part of the 70’s and 80’s they were the drum head of choice for  many, […]

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