{"id":217,"date":"2023-07-10T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/new-o-vintage\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:22:40","slug":"new-or-vintage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/new-o-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"The drums: new or vintage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>My own Ludwig 1978\u2032 drum kit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Artificial intelligence certainly won&#039;t be able to build a Stradivarius or a Gretsch from the 1950s, instruments that, with all their unmistakable merits and &quot;perhaps&quot; some defects, have characterized both classical music and jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Many drummers, in the case of percussion, despite being endorsers of big brands, continue to use drums from the 50s\/60s\/70s.<\/p>\n<p>A bit like with wine, there is a mandatory path for the taste buds and smell to evaluate important bottles, this also applies to the ear, the old practically handcrafted drums such as the old Ludwig, Gretcsh, Slingerland to name the most well-known, have a unique sound and personality even when comparing the same drum, same size and same year, all rigorously signed by the assembler with the date of construction next to it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fundamental difference between the new, which still has a good sound and a good finish, and the unique nuances of the vintage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batteria di mia propriet\u00e0 Ludwig 1978&#8242; Di sicuro l\u2019intelligenza artificiale non riuscir\u00e0 a costruire uno Stradivari o una Gretcsh degli anni 50\u2019 , strumenti che con tutti i loro inconfondibili pregi e \u201cforse \u201c qualche difetto, hanno caratterizzato sia la musica classica che il jazz. Molti batteristi, nel caso delle percussioni, pur essendo endorser di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batteria","category-musica"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}