Thank you!
どうもありがとうございます!
Merci bien!
¡Muchas gracias!
Grazie mille!
Muito obrigado!
Hartstikke bedankt!
Vielen Dank!
Dziękuję ci!
Bardzo dziękuję!
Tack så mycket!
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..
Adrian Romero
Àlex Raspall
Alex Wicheard
Alomy Zafat Prates Missio
Armin Engelhard at Farm Sound on Reverb
Ashley Powell
Benjamin Lopez Mena
Bill (bepdrumsqi)
Bob Holmes
Bruce Murphy
Carl at the Coalition Drum Shop
Charles Flannery
Chris Amsler
Chris from Drummers Only
Chris from Highwood Music
Chris Murray
Clay Foss
cold_air from Carosell
Corey Plueard
Cristian Mansilla (trommer4u)
Cymbals+Drum Refurbs (misterse) on Carosell
Dan from Drumazon
Dan Kindness
Dan Mikietyn
Dan Rouse
Daniel Morales
Daniel Tursi
Daniel Z. Warshauer
Danny Rowe
Darryll O’Brien of Bubby’s Pro Drum Shop
Dave Dudley at Dave's Drum Shop
Dave Malone
Dave Parker
Dave Raeburn
Dee OG
Diego Kique Salazar
Dirk Forsdyke
Don Newman
Donald McDade
Donn Bennett from Donn's Drum Vault
Doug Fuller
Doug Sole at Soul Drums
Drum Dojo on Reverb
Drummie Chris
Edgard Diaz Ruiz
Edward Gravlin at ESG Gear Outlet
Enrico Pezzini
Eric Javier Simmons
Fernando Botero
Fernando Piccinini of Nando Batera Shop
Gabriel De Sales
Gage Scaletta
Garbled Often Baffled
Garry Fowlds
Gary Seymour
George Lawrence from Not So Modern Drummer
George Lucarelli
Glen Buck
Glenn Sharp
Graeme Law
Grayson Newland
Gustavo A Ortegon
Guy Shaw
Hamish Mackintosh
Hernández Jorge
Hugh Jeffries
Ian Tate
Ilario Felicetti
ilmercatinodelbatterista from eBay
J.D. Cowan
Jason Vazquez
Jay Butcher
JG Awad
Jason Black
Jeff Keyser
Jeremy at Olympia Music Hub.
Jesse Larson
Jesse Dwyer
John (mid-century-vinyl-and-drums on eBay)
John Raimonda
John Taylor
Jonathan Long
Joris Nijenhuis
Josh Beyers, General Manager, Denver Percussion.
Joshua McKay
Joshua Smelser
Juan Palesama
Julio from Neko Music in Japan
Kelly Endsley
Kendall Pariah Divoll
Kenneth of Kenneth Geer of Kenneth's Gear Bazaar
Kevin Anderson
kunoichi_music_square_for_players
Kyle Riley
Liam Ross
lidija4 from njuskalo.hr
Levi Lateralus
Lieven Vandeurzen
Loddy Joesbury
Luis Henrique Carboni
Malte Barke
Mark Zivilik
Martin (marbub-9978 on eBay)
Martin Borré
Matt D'Amico
Matt Valle
Matthew Wade
Max Pepe
Mazão Souza
Michael Dawson
Mike Hendrickx
Mike Harper
Mikołaj Kaczmarek
Morgan Deveney
Nikolas Georgopoulos
NIPPON_YABAI (manganism.japan)
Olivier Mariétan
Osse
Paul Dasilva
Paul Sturrey (paulsturrey123)
Pauline and Cliff Avery
Peter Kolodka
Peter Lorenz
Peter Ussher
Philippe Perret
Ramy Issa
Ray Elliott
Richard Hawes
Richard Penner
Richard Prentice
Rick at the Music Emporium
Rob from Drumnutz
Rob from The Cymbal Centre
Rob James
Robert Luciano
Roberto Vazquez
Roy (roymundo)
Ryan Lawrence
Sam (sam_bax15) from eBay
Sami Kizilbash
Sarah Lappin
Scott at One Stop Drums
Sean at the Boston Drum Center
Shannon Stephenson
Shayne from Steve's Music
Simon Daniels
Skip Wilde
Stefan Luschner
Stephen Lieske
Stephen Watters
Thomas Riveros at Nova Music
Tim Coulson
Tim Gillespie
Tim Scharn
Todd Crawford of Metro Gnome Music
Tom Potti
Tony Holt
Tony Thomas
Tosh Mihalev
Travis Denwood
Tristan at Drum Attic
Urs Rhyner
Vince T. Desmarais
Warren Armstrong
washablenappyfreak from eBay
Wessel Kuit
William at Modern Music
Zack Cruz
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.