DaveInNZI was looking at the Sonor .de website and found this note in the news section.
https://www.sonormuseum.de/wp-content/u ... nt-ENG.pdf
Certainly their posture is understandable, and indeed, prudent from my point of view, from several worldwide aspects. Just all kinds of issues, not the least of which is security issues...just all those things that thinking and news reading world citizens all know about. So much unrest in our world.
My Sonor playing time is my time for MY real world.
I would like to organize sometime of event, even if it's five or ten folks. Anyone in Texas and particularly Central Texas near Austin that wants to think of a fun way to celebrate our favorite drum? I KNOW there are other Sonor enthusiasts in the Houston/Austin area, and I have one longtime friend in Houston with some very nice Sonor kits, newer and older, all breathtaking.
If the event could be held in the Austin area, I have a locale on a friends place where he constructed a "tavern"/party facility at his place with no nearby complaining neighbors, out of a historic barn from somewhere else in Texas. It's like a smaller version of an old time Texas dance hall, and I hesitate to guess square footage but certainly large enough to set up some kits and have some fellow musician friends come out to accompany us on some jams in some throw down bands.
Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there. Perhaps folks in semi-concentrated groups could somehow celebrate. It's shame so many of our old brick and mortar drum stores are now gone that actually were Sonor stores that regularly stocked and could order Sonors. There's a few left, but to my knowledge, none near me in Texas. Drum Shop of Maine is one dealer I can readily think of...Bentley's still sells Sonor and back 20+ years ago was my go to phone order guy for all kinds of Sonor parts when I was rehabbing a very nice Highlight Exclusive kit. It would be cool to see SONOR Happy Birthday parties somewhere.
My friend, although not a drummer, is of German heritage, and is fascinated by my Signatures, and would no doubt look forward to seeing some of these kits. He previously some 20 years ago greatly admired my Sonor Highlight Exclusive and SonorLite ebony lacquer rock sized kits. I'll never forget the the wonderful smell inside those beautiful birch shells all those years after they had been made. If you've ever been lucky enough to have owned or changed heads on a SonorLite, it's like a Scandinavian/German birch forest smell overwhelmed me with certainly what is the most pleasant smell I've ever smelled from a drum shell. Sadly, in a moment of stupidity, I sold that kit. I am sure it is rocking out somewhere.
Anyway, my two cents.
