Weird drums from the past (02)

Welcome to the second part of my "Weird drums from the past" section.
In the previous part I've been talking about North Drums and here I'll take care of another great brand of the past:

TRIXON DRUMS

Karl Weimer, founder of Trixon, started his own business in 1956 in Hamburg, Germany.
His company lived through the next two decades and achieved good popularity both in europe and the USA.
Trixon Drumsets, sold also under the "VOX" brand, had incredible endorsers such as Buddy Rich himself.
I think this brand deserves to be put in my "Weird drums from the past" section becouse of some incredible concepts Mr. Weimer developed, such as:

Telstar Conical shaped drums.
These drums were Weimer’s idea of compression and decompression. As opposed to cylindrical shaped shells of standard drum design, the Telstar Bass Drum with conical bore pushed the sound to the back of the room (similar to the subwoofers of today). While the reverse conical of the toms pushed sound out, which made for handsomely deep, rich sounding toms – especially from such a small drumset.

Speedfire Ellipsoid Bass Drum.
The premise behind the Speedfire was the idea of the “Two Different Bass Sounds from One Bass Shell.” Using two pedals (essence behind today’s double bass pedals), a player was able to get 2 sound pitches from the same drum. This idea further followed Weimer’s practical sense of getting a lot of sound out of a compact package.

Disappearing tom mount.
The disappearing tom mount, which had tubes penetrating both bass drum and tom toms, is the basis of Pearl mounting systems from the 80’s. The bass drum mounted disappearing cymbal stand with a rod passing through a clamped ball was resurrected by Sonor in the 90’s.

To gather more info about Trixon, please visit:
www.trixondrums.de

If interested in conical shaped drums:
www.daldossdrums.it