I just came across the Kumu Handmade Drums website (http://kumu.fi ). Beautiful drums, aren't they?
In the history section of the site, founder-owner Pekka Helanen talks of his childhood and how he started out playing drums. It gave me enough inspiration to take a peek back into mine and just blog about some serious fun we had, back in the last century.
I started getting interested in the drumset as an instrument at the age of 12 or 13 — relatively old in comparison to prodigies like Eloy Casagrande. Back in school, me and my best friend would spend hours listening to music.
I didn't have my own drumkit till I was about 21 years old. I started playing friom age 16. I have played in two semi-pro bands through college, for all three years, on someone else's drumkits. Yeah, that makes me a strong contender for WFPD ('World's Funkiest Pillow Drummer').
As a kid — why, even when I was about 16, I used to hang bedsheets and towels from the bed posts to act as 'cymbals' and had multiple cushions stacked up to act as 'hi-hats'.
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