Professor Scott Herring Visits China

Grover Pro Endorser Dr. Scott Herring has had a busy summer, recently completed a performing and teaching trip to China. Scott visited Yantai, which is on the coast, about a one hour flight from Beijing. In addition to performing with the Rosewind Duo at the Yantai Cultural Center, he was the first professional Western percussionist to visit the area. The numerous young, aspiring, Chinese percussion students were thrilled to be able to learn from someone of Scott’s caliber and abilities!

Scott reports that all of the students and teachers were very thirsty for information about western percussion techniques. In one of his masterclasses Scott introduced Grover Pro tambourines to the Chinese percussionists. (see photo)

At the end of his visit Scott was honored to receive several invitations to return to Yantai, Xi’an, and Jinan, China.

Dr. Scott Herring is an Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

Tech-Talk: “The Truth About Practice and Performance”

Please read Grover Pro endorser Andy Harnsberger’s excellent article for the July 2011 Percussive Notes, “The Truth About Practice and Performance” (reprinted with permission).

A link to the article can also be found on our Tech-Talk page.

New Website Now Live!

After months in the planning stage, here it is, our new Grover Pro website! I hope you enjoy the exciting features, images, educational content, and, our NEW “BUY NOW” FEATURE…

We welcome your comments, suggestions and feedback. Keep checking back often as we will regularly be adding the latest information about our products, and news about the many percussive artists around the globe who perform on Grover Pro Percussion products.

So sit back, relax and enjoy our home on the world wide web!

Neil Grover – Founder & CEO

Caixa Trio Win “Drummie” Award!

It has just been announced that Grover Pro artists Julie Davilla, Julie Hill & Amy Smith, known collectively as The Caixa Trio have won the “Best Percussion Ensemble” category of DRUM! magazine’s “Drummie” awards.

Each year readers of DRUM! choose their favorite performing percussionists. Look for the results in the August issue of DRUM! Other Grover Pro artists that made the grade include Efrain Toro, Valerie Dee Naranjo, Airto Moreira and Taku Hirano.

Congratulations to all!

Joby Burgess Tours with Peter Gabriel

Everyone knows that Grover Pro products are used in the world’s finest concert halls, but did you know that our products are omnipresent in the LA studios, on Broadway and with top touring acts like Peter Gabriel?

We had a chance to catch up with new Grover Endorser Joby Burgess while he was in Boston with Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra. Joby joins the ranks of some of Britain’s top solo percussionists like Evelyn Glennie, Daniella Ganeva and Dave Danford, who are all Grover Pro endorsers.

“Thanks for picking out the excellent new triangles for my North American tour with Peter Gabriel. Peter has a passion for using several very closely pitched triangles together, on tracks like Mercy Street and Don’t Give Up. Yours are by far the best I’ve used. My new Grover tambourines have been another great addition on this tour, that great Grover sound in a rock n roll context.”

News From Grover Artist Julie Hill

The University of Tennessee at Martin Percussion Studio (Julie Hill, Director) traveled to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil from May 15-22, 2011. . The UTM studio also participated in percussion lessons, cultural exchange sessions, and clinics with the percussion studio of the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador.

The culmination of this exchange was a collective concert featuring both studios on Thursday May 19th at the UFBA School of Music. The finale of this concert was a premiere written by Hill for the event entitled, “Lembranças” in which both studios performed together. Julie told us “The UTM students were absolutely wonderful in their openness to diversity and experiences in a new and diverse culture in Salvador, Brazil. They were great ambassadors of UTM and the USA at large. We are so grateful to everyone that helped us with a truly life changing experience that the students nor I will ever forget. New hearts and minds, both in Brazil and within our UTM students, are open as a result of this exchange and the world has become just a little smaller place for us.”

Custom Shop Now Open!

We’ve just launched our much anticipated Grover Pro Custom Shop. We’ll be listing some exciting new products for sale including: prototypes, “one-offs”, demo models, custom models, etc.

Right now we’re listing a few custom drums, available factory-direct at savings from 50%-70% off MSRP. Keep checking back as inventory will be changing and growing!

CLICK THE LINK TO THE RIGHT TO ENTER THE SHOP…

Factory Visit

Naples Philharmonic (FL) Principal Percussionist Jim Dallas visited our factory today. Jim was on a New England trip visiting both the venerable Avedis Zildjian Company and Grover Pro Percussion too.

While he was here, Jim informed us that he really loves our new X-Series Synthetic Head Tambourines. Jim explains his experience is that our innovative synthetic head tambos work really well, and are unaffected in the very humid Florida weather. Jim purchased his first Grover Pro tambourine in 1983 and reports that he still plays it all the time with the Naples Philharmonic!

Log Drum Sound Files Added

Our log drum is not your average log drum! To prove our point we have captured the resonant, full sonorities produced by our new Padauk Log Drums and make them available for you to hear.

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When you’re done listening to our padauk log drums Google our competitors and listen to their log drums. You’ll be amazed at the difference!

PLEASE NOTE – Due to the RICH, COMPLEX, SONORITIES of our LOG DRUMS, your computer speakers are incapable of reproducing the full sonic spectrum of our product accurately. We strongly suggest listening using high quality ear buds or headphones.

To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn…

Check out the new 360° dynamic view of our G3™ Concert Snare Drum! It’s easy to manipulate, just use your mouse to grab and spin the drum around, a full 360°.

Want to examine our G3™ strainer…no problem. Want to check out the nodal vent…no problem. Interested in our G3™ snare isolation adjustment…no problem. You get the idea!