IMPRESSIONS FROM THE 2010 MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL
07Jul 2010
- happy visitors
- stephan haenisch tuning the surdos
- drummers with our hand percussion
- waiting for the factory tour
- gergo borlai from hungary
- drum fans
- visitor with our african style djembe
- percussion slatwall
- bertil mark and oli rubow during their master class
- visitors
- dave mackintosh featuring his signature attack timbales
- drum circle
- bill saragosa and mario schmitt after setting up the percussion tent
- kid with luis conte shakers
- percussion slatwall and congas from the contest
- thomas lang in action
- stephan maass enjoyed the day
- drummers testing hihats
- impression from the drum circle
- a family checking out our sea drum
- holger mertin on stage
- damien schmitt hard-hitting
- mrs. meinl and gomez from reamonn
- passion
- charly boeck does the drum circle
- benny greb and frank itt at their master class
- beat the rhythm with your hands
- the flyer is upside-down... whatever ;-)
- josé cortijo and lerryns hernández
- drum tech tommy noack
- drum circle
- bertil mark in action
- der holger
- guys from tollwerk with dave mackintosh
- chris coleman grooving
- drum circle
- lerryns from venezuela
- oli rubow experimental
- view from the stage in our huge tent
- charly boeck jamming
- tugba learns how to play frame drum
- bill saragosa in his element (the bigger, the louder, the better)
hi friends,
our annual meinl drum festival is gone and our team is already working on the next one which is going to take place on 2nd of july 2011 in mexico city!
this year, we had round about 2.000 visitors, perfect weather, and a magnificient atmosphere. thanks to all visitors, drummers, and cooperator for this felicitous event!
attached you'll find some impressions from the show.
mario
ps. special thanks to nadja vogel and david brenner for capturing those great moments!
CONGA DESIGN CONTEST IS OVER AND THE WINNERS ARE...
30Jun 2010
- MEINL contest winner! #1
- MEINL contest winner! #2
- MEINL contest winner! #3
today at 12pm our conga design contest has ended.
and the winners are:
#1 - anne-sophie innmann
#2 - junior high school hof
(thomas kuttkowski, kevin trivel, christiana gemeinhard)
#3 - nadine schilling and florian hagmueller
thanks to all the creative people for the nice designs and to everybody out there for the votes! it was a very exciting and interesting project... maybe we'll have something similar in the future.
stay tuned!
mario
MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL
23Jun 2010
dear friends,
my trip to bangkok went pretty good. we are working on nice and promising projects... can't wait to see first prototypes!
next upcoming high-light will be the MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL 2010 which is going to take place this saturday! you can imagine that everybody is working to capacity right now...
we got meinl percussion artist holger mertin for a stunning frame drum performance. bertil mark will be jamming together with oli rubow along some electronic beats. bill saragosa and charly boeck are going to entertain our visitors with drum circles during the whole day! and last but not least we present an exquisite selection of some of the best drummers nowadays! make sure to check the website and drop by if you have a chance.
even meinl artist lerryns hernandez (bongo project) from venezuela is visiting us later today! will be great to finally meet in person...
beside the two stages we will have a wide cymbal and percussion exhibition including the 30 designed congas from our contest!
i'm looking forward to this event and i hope many of you are going to show up!
mario
RATE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN!
29Apr 2010
our online voting contest for the best conga design has started!
check out all the designs we got from our artists and fans and vote for them.
the contest will last until 30th of june! we are also going to exhibit all congas at our meinl drum festival.
thanks again to all attendees for their designs and incredible work!
mario
MUSIKMESSE REVIEW
30Mar 2010
- meinl cymbals and percussion
- jose j cortijo
- holger mertin in action
- lets play frame drum
- percussion slatwall
- passion for percussion
- roland peil likes our new vented jingle pandeiros
- the taku hiranu signature hand-bale with its mipa award
- max klaas plays with our new pro-tablas
- happening at the booth
musikmesse frankfurt is over and everybody is catching up with emails and other responsibilities. but i have to say that the show has been very positive for us. we had a nice booth, met with many great friends, did some good business, and came home with our seventh m.i.p.a. award : ) so i would say, it's been worth the trouble!
i will post some photos from the event to give you an idea of the happening if you couldn't have been there.
thanks to everybody that came to our booth and special thanks to holger mertin for helping me with performances and demonstrations during the trade show.
mario
MUSIKMESSE FRANKFURT 2010
19Mar 2010
all last minute preparations for musikmesse 2010 are done!
this year, we are more focused on B2B rather than on B2C. but of course we are happy about everybody that drops by our booth (hall 3.0 B25) during the upcoming week to check out all of our new instruments.
we'll also have meinl artist holger mertin from thursday to saturday there, to demonstrate our frame drums and other hand percussion.
i'm really looking forward to this event and it would be nice to see some of you there too!
mario
NAMM 2010
17Jan 2010
- the MEINL booth
- welcome to the world of MEINL percussion
- TAKU HIRANO signature hand-bale
- our new congas
- exterior view
- outside banner - scenes from our image movie
- the new bongo display
- the new percussion display for frame drums, bongos, and cajons
greetings from Anaheim,
third day of NAMM just passed and i my ears are still ringing from all the drumming :)
the show went pretty good for all us... people really dig all of our new instruments! everybody loves the new Taku Hirano Signature Hand-Bale. make sure to check it out! also the new True Feel Synthetic Heads for frame drums are a big hit!
besides the business, it's also great to meet with some good friends again!
thanks to everybody that dropped by at our booth!
looking forward to another exciting day tomorrow...
mario
off to NAMM
08Jan 2010
hello everyone,
i hope you had a good start into 2010.
we're done with our preparations for NAMM and on monday me and my team will fly to sunny california, while good old germany sinks in snow.
i'll try to keep you up-to-date with photos and footage from the fair.
looking forward to seeing some good friends again and to show the world what we've cooked up in the past months...
maybe we'll see some of you there, too - you'll find us at booth #3454
bye for now
mario
Pimp your MEINL Conga Set !!!
05Jan 2010
MEINL Percussion is starting the New Year with a call to all the creative minds in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.
What's it all about?
We have 30 unpainted sets of Marathon Classic Congas (Tumba, Conga & Quito). The surface is ready to accept any design! We are setting no limits to your creative imagination.
Who may take part?
Everyone living in these countries who would like to show us an example of their creativity may take part. (Players: let your designer friends know about this!) Send us photos, sketches, or links to this address: info@meinlpercussion.com
How does it work?
Please show us by 31.01.10, why you are qualified for the contest. Then we will send a set of three Marathon Classic Congas free of charge, to qualified participants. This will include a Freeway Ticket, so that you can send the Congas back to us safe and sound at no charge.
What is the Deal?
We will present all the Congas we receive for votes online. The winning design will be (if technically possible) included in our 2011 Product line-up.
PS:
After the contest, all the Congas will be sent back to each designer and will be yours to keep!
We are looking forward to your entries!
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MEINL Percussion startet im neuen Jahr einen Aufruf an sämtliche kreative Köpfe Deutschlands...
Um was geht’s?
Wir haben 30 unlackierte Dreier-Sätze Marathon Classic Congas, deren Oberfläche Ihr individuell designen könnt! Dabei ist Eurer Kreativität keine Grenzen gesetzt.
Wer kann mitmachen?
Jeder (mit Wohnsitz in Deutschland, Österreich, Belgien, Luxemburg und den Niederlande) der uns vorab einen Einblick seiner Kreativität vermitteln kann. Hierzu könnt ihr uns an folgende Adresse Fotos, Skizzen oder Links schicken: info@meinlpercussion.com
Wie funktionierts?
Bitte erklärt uns bis zum 31.01.2010, warum Ihr für den Contest qualifiziert seid. Danach bekommt Ihr 3 MCC Congas kostenfrei zugeschickt – inkl. Freeway Ticket, mit dem Ihr die Congas wieder ganz bequem und kostenfrei an uns zurück senden könnt.
Was ist der Deal?
Wir werden alle eingesandten Congas zum Online -Voting präsentieren. Das Gewinner-Design werden wir, wenn technisch umsetzbar, 2011 in unser Programm aufnehmen.
PS.
Alle Congas werden nach dem Contest wieder an Euch zurück geschickt und gehen in Euer Eigentum über!
Wir freuen uns auf Euere Einsendungen!
Mario
jan delay & disko no. 1
19Oct 2009
- jan delay with our fibercraft designer series congas
- jost nickel at the sound-check
- the wind section
- jan live
- jost live
hi friends,
on saturday, i met with jan delay and disko no. 1 (featuring meinl artist jost nickel on drums) for a photo shoot at s.oliver arena in wuerzburg.
the house was packed and the crowd went absolutely crazy! i'm still amazed by jost's groovy drumming... it was really a fantastic show with lots of soul and funk. to me, it was one of the highlights of this year...
special thanks to jan, jost and marek for the kind atmosphere and the smooth flow of work.
mario
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