Brand Your Marching / Pipe and Drum Band!
Your band is on the march. Practice and planning has been meticulous and your presentation refined to the last polished button. You’ve put in a lot of time and effort to get to this point. But is your band representing your image to the fullest? Your band is a powerful messenger of spirit and identity. Your name, and your logo, are at the center of your band’s franchise. And DrumImage can help support this brand identity by adding full color, highly durable graphic images to your bass drum heads. Your audience will notice the difference – and so will you. DrumImage is used by many leading Pipe & Drum bands, Collegiate, High School, and Competition Marching Bands across the country. Those bands that compete appreciate the high sound quality resulting from our...
What Should We Put On Our Custom Bass Drum Head?
You’ve made the decision – and it was an easy one – that you’ve just got to get some graphics onto your bass drum head(s). You’re looking for something with high visual impact, something that will leave a lasting impression with those who see it, and something that will enhance your band’s image. So what, exactly, should that be? And what does that look like? Great questions. And I’ll take a stab at providing some answers, but let’s first define what we’re talking about: the WHAT. We’re going to talk about the information your head(s) will convey. HOW they convey that information – designs, fonts, colors, arrangement, etc. – are also critically important, but we’ll save that for another blog. Unless your band has a visual icon with the universal familiarity of,...
Our AHA! Moment (The BG Story)
Wonder how we got started in this business? It’s a good story, and it started when BG walked into our offices in the spring of 2005. BG, we soon learned, was a bass drum instructor for several well known competition pipe & drum bands in the area. He’d heard we were pretty good at figuring out solutions for the sign and visual communications industry, so he asked if we could put graphics on a bass drum head-graphics that would last, and not ruin the drum’s sound. As we interviewed BG to understand what had been tried in the past, why it hadn’t worked, and what performance characteristics were going to be required of these graphics, we realized that this was going to be substantial challenge – and was going to require a collaborative effort. The ideal...