Future Drums

[dingaling]

Imagine in 1923 and going to a music store and seeing a Sonor SQ2 kit fully set up. It would’ve blown drummers minds. (I think the hi hat was invented around then)

So in 100 years, 2123, any thoughts on what you’d see going into a drum store?

Literal floating toms, snares made of gases, a robot telling you about the new cymbals which are .00001mm thick?

 

[Lennykenard]

I’d bet we’d see the 500 year anniversary of Zildjian.

 

[Steech]

Imagine in 1923 and going to a music store and seeing a Sonor SQ2 kit fully set up. It would’ve blown drummers minds. (I think the hi hat was invented around then)

So in 100 years, 2123, any thoughts on what you’d see going into a drum store?

Literal floating toms, snares made of gases, a robot telling you about the new cymbals which are .00001mm thick?

A hihat clutch that works.

 

[NewVintage]

The standard configuration may change a bit. E-kit hybrids or straight e-kits will be even more common in live and recorded music. Maybe acoustic drums will be a thing of the past? This coming from a guy that has several 100 year old drums, haha.

 

[Squirrel Man]

As I'm getting more and more jaded with "technology" and "new and improved" in my (ahem...) advancing years I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that folks from the way past would to a large degree turn their noses up at modern.

 

[katulu]

Star Trek Nemesis already answered this: Plastic green cymbals.

 

[Houndog]

Already here , I played a kit it’s amazing how great it sounds with perfect tension all around …

 

[bellbrass]

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but.... I'd predict that in 2123, very few people would be playing acoustic drums. As in, no acoustic drum manufacturers, and the only people playing acoustic drums would be oddball music historian types.

 

[m_anderson]

Already here , I played a kit it’s amazing how great it sounds with perfect tension all around …
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I like the concept. I've seen different versions of the same principal over the years, but this looks like it might actually work. Curious how heavy they are with the rims and pulleys.

 

[Gotdrums]

A hihat clutch that works.

Check out Billdidit clutch. I think some big name bought them. Not sure. Only clutch I use daily. Everyday.

 

[mtarrani]

In 500 years I am betting that a small box with a slick interface and terabytes of samples will be the standard "percussion" instrument. It will not be played; it will be programmed like all other instruments. In 500 years folks will marvel over the fact that there was a profession (and hobby) called musician, and those musicians actually played their strange looking instruments.

 

[towndog]

There will be 150th DW Anniversary Kits for just over a million dollars made from 100 year old Bodhi trees

 

[lamartee]

 

[Lennykenard]

There will be 150th DW Anniversary Kits for just over a million dollars made from 100 year old Bodhi trees

John will be the guy to find the Ark of the Covenant, and turn that thing into a kit.

 

[1988fxlr]

Mapex badges will project hollograms into the sky while their toms hang from electro magnetic suspension that requires no contact at all. Ludwig lugs will look the same as they have since wfl and Gretsch will still have five lug 12” toms

 

[Rich K.]

A hihat clutch that works.

How is your hi hat clutch not working?

 

[Redbeard77]

John will be the guy to find the Ark of the Covenant, and turn that thing into a kit.

Or the lumber from Noah's Ark

 

[eddiej]

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but.... I'd predict that in 2123, very few people would be playing acoustic drums. As in, no acoustic drum manufacturers, and the only people playing acoustic drums would be oddball music historian types.

I have to disagree. When electronic drums started to become popular in the early 1980s a lot of people predicted all the acoustic drum manufacturers would be out of business. That didn't happen.

 

[Beefsurgeon]

I suspect we'll see some difference in manufacturing methods and materials, but I don't think drum kit will be radically different.

Maybe someone will finally figure out how to make a decent drumstick out of something other than a hardwood dowel.

There will probably be some innovation in wood or wood-like materials that will trickle down to drumshell manufacturing. There are already houses being 3-d printed with wood-like stuff https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/umaine-3d-printed-from-bio-based-materials

Chrome plating might supplanted by a process that creates less hazardous waste.

 

[Steech]

How is your hi hat clutch not working?

I was joking