Company type | Private |
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Industry | Musical instruments |
Founded | 1972Santa Monica, California | in
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Don Lombardi, Founder Chris Lombardi, President and CEO John Good, COO |
Products | |
Brands | Pacific Drums |
Parent | Roland Corporation |
Subsidiaries | |
Website | dwdrums.com |
Drum Workshop, Inc. (also known as DW Drums or DW) is a drum kit and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California. Current products by DW include drum sets, snare drums, and hardware. [1]
Drum Workshop was founded in 1972 as a teaching studio by Don Lombardi. Alongside student John Good, Lombardi began a small drum equipment sales operation to cover the studio's operation costs. After the closure of the Camco Drum Company in 1977, its manufacturing equipment was purchased by Drum Workshop. [2]
After selling primarily drum hardware, the company began making its first drum sets in 1990. [3]
DW expanded into larger facilities in Oxnard, California, and grew to oversee a new company, Pacific Drums and Percussion, a company offering lower-priced drum sets.
In 2015, Drum Workshop acquired Ovation Guitars, Latin Percussion, Toca Percussion, Gibraltar Hardware, and KAT Technologies. [4] In November, 2019, DW acquired Slingerland Drum Company from Gibson, with plans to introduce Slingerland-branded, vintage style drums to the market in 2020. [5] [6]
In late 2022, it was announced that Roland would acquire DW for $65 million as the company looks to expand into the acoustic drum market. [7] [8]