These days most drums are made in the Far East. Be they Japanese or every other country looking for low cost manufacture. And so many old names have now disappeared. I'm talking before Mapex, Yamaha and Pearl etc came on the scene.
When I was a youngster and starting to play drums I had all the Drum catalogues which I used to drool over.
Recently I have been thinking of all those companies that used to make drums.
I have listed some but I am sure there must be others that I have forgotten and hopefully some of you guys out there will remember and add them to this list.
So here goes
Premier --- Beverly --- Olympic --- British
Ajax ------------ British
Gretch -------- American
Broadway -------- British
Autocrat ( The more expensive Broadway drums - I think ??)
Ludwig -------- American
Slingerlamd -------- American
Sonor ------- German
Was there a company called Royal Drums??
Any more ??