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« on: May 13, 2008, 05:55 PM »

 
I had a French ASBA kit in the late seventies, it looked like this:


Now as I've just found information about the good old thing at http://drumarchive.com/asba/ and http://www.asbadrums.com/, I wonder if any of you had experience with this brand.


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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2008, 09:38 AM »

I've never heard of or seen one of these kits before. Interesting hardware.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2008, 10:11 PM »

They are quite rare. More common in Europe.
The most famous ASBA thing is the Caroline bass drum pedal.
I've never played a kit. They supposedly sound great.
Most of the product was French made wood shell, although they did have an acrylic line, and you see the odd steel shell kit too.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2008, 03:51 PM »

 
I bought the kit by accident: when I first needed a good kit for a prospectively good band that I started to play with, this was the only one of proper quality available in the nearest shop. I loved its look and sound, so I bought it.
Now I regret that I let it go later (I bought a car for the money I got, shamefully enough) -  I should have kept it just like I kept my Paiste 602 hi-hats back and stored them in a cupboard for 25 years.
As for the Caroline pedal, now I see on the ASBA site how precious and inventive it was, but that time I didn't find it too convenient, I used my good old Premier 250 instead... Now I wish I could try that Caroline again.
 
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