Thank You and Photo Credits

Thank Yous

Firstly and most importantly, endless thanks to my wife Tracey for putting up with me and my obsessions over the years – love you xxxx

Obviously, massive thanks has to go to Mapex themselves for making such amazing drums in the first place.

Huge thank you to Pete and Scot at Sound Attak for the server space and all their help over several decades now!!

Enormous thanks to the great Shimano Lefty of Mapex Japan / Beyond Shimano for making so many incredible creations, and his endless patience with my incessant stupid questions in my horrendous  Japanese. 心から、どうもありがとうございます、ドラム神様。

Huge amounts of gratitude go to Alex Wicheard for letting me have access to his own database of Mapex snares, which has been invaluable in validating and correcting the information on here.  

Personal thanks to Martin Potts of Korg UK for his encouragement with this project, and for all his help with tracking down bits and pieces for my own kits.

I also need to give a shoutout to the wonderful Gareth Heeley of Highwood Drums who has forgotten more about wood and building drums than I'll ever know! Despite running his own drum company, he has generously answered so many of my inane questions about shell materials that I've lost count. Cheers Gareth!

Photo Credits

To everyone who has sent me even one photo (and some have sent many, many shots!) or supplied further information – thank you folks.

The project wouldn’t be anywhere without all your support and generosity.

In (sort of) alphabetical order then..

Thanks also to the very few people who sent shots, but didn't want to be credited - you know who you are.

If I’ve missed anyone out, please accept my apologies and do let me know so I can credit you!

Where there has been absolutely no alternative, photos from Walmart, Amazon, Audiofanzine, Worthpoint and Picclick have occasionally been used for reference under fair use. If you happen to see one of your shots, please do get in touch and I’d be delighted to credit you properly.