{"id":859,"date":"2012-02-11T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2012-02-11T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:06:55","slug":"sds7-cymbal-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"SDS7 Cymbal Pads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw an &#8220;SDS7 cymbal pad&#8221; on Ebay last year, I thought it&#8217;s a fake. I haven&#8217;t seen any advertisement where a pad like this had been mentioned. But they really existed for a short period of time. Finally I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/?area=downloads&amp;download_id=269\">brochure published by Simmons Group Center<\/a>. One of the last mysteries is cleared up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120211_cymbal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/p\/blog\/20120211_cymbal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is what Glynn Thomas, former CEO of Simmons Group Center, USA, responded:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;it was good to see that ad we produced for Modern Drummer magazine and featured our own version of a Simmons Cymbal. Sadly, Dave Simmons didn&#8217;t like us producing our own version of a Cymbal and vetoed it. So only a few prototypes were actually made, and then quietly dropped. The &#8220;rack&#8221; was our idea ( actually Dave Levine designed it with the cooperation of Ultimate Systems ) and was very very successful for Simmons Group Centre&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw an &#8220;SDS7 cymbal pad&#8221; on Ebay last year, I thought it&#8217;s a fake. I haven&#8217;t seen any advertisement where a pad like this had been mentioned. But they really existed for a short period of time. Finally I found a brochure published by Simmons Group Center. One of the last mysteries is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}