Epic Percussion Gear Tour - The Hartt School 

I donated my time fixing Percussion for local School Districts in Las Vegas, NV and Utah "Pictures available upon request", I was constantly amazed at the quality Percussion Equipment that was deemed to be B.E.R. "Beyond Economic Repair" simply because of broken drumheads, missing Tension rods, missing Resonators.. Many, many, many times I would go into a Bandroom and they'd have several Incorrect sized Tympani Drumheads and a set of Timps that only needed Heads, like the Band Director had finally bought the wrong size head for the last time and finally said forget it.. One of my personal favorite finds was at a Private School in Utah, they had a MINT Rogers 1960's Champagne Sparkle (5) Piece drumset on a shelf in CASES, the only thing wrong with it was "Split Heads" there was a period of time back in the early 1970's where Drumhead manufacturers were having a problem with their Drumhead formulas and Brand New Drumheads would split right out of the box when you applied tension, these Rogers Drums hadn't been abused and didn't appear to have a stick mark on them.. A couple times I found entire sets of Marimbas and Xylophones unstrung and sitting in Boxes, the cord had broke and they didn't know what to do.. The ABSOLUTE 1st thing I was taught as new 4th grade Percussionist back in 1969 was "If it breaks, DON'T Touch it", show it to the Band Director, later that was revised to "Show all Broken Percussion to Section Leader" and finally as Section Leader all Percussion Maintenance was my responsibility.. Somewhere along the line the Chain has broken down.. Newer and newer Percussion Equipment sits Idle in School Band Room Storage rooms, like a Bike Shop full of Bikes with Flat Tires and no one knows what to do with them except buy a new one.

I am saddened my "Today I learned about eighth notes" shame sign that has lived above the door in 219 for 20+ years wasn't shown. 😂🤣🤣😜

This tour slaps. Happy Birthday Matt Bronson!!!

Great history and memorialization of the program. That office sure has gotten PACKED and STACKED!

"You're welcome to come join us anytime" Oh man, how I wish that I could do so, but living in Belgium means that I can't really do that. Even just seeing all this percussion is great!

Great work Weiss and Crew! Very nostalgic for me!

Loved this!

A famous family called, Porcaro, was from Hartford. Jeff, Mike and Steve Porcaro played in TOTO and Joe was their dad. I don´t know if this school was around in the early 60:s.. But mayby they were students on the school.

FYI 2 lion's roar...Godzilla East Las Vegas. Although, you could share one.

The brick >

the TOTH