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Well it depends what you mean by serious...but pretty sure yes ;-)...
  I met him then (98) a few times because of some problems on my  
SDX ... Bringing it from France to UK to make repairs, changing  
FSRs...& to meet Dave of course...

Dave was working on the DrumX (the computer interface) then ...
Still building one or two SDX a year... selling some Hexaheads...here  
or there... Turtletrap...Multimallet for schools ...distributing some  
extras Multisamples soundbank for the SDX ...
Same sort of business he did since 1994 I suppose...
He was trying & working hard to save SoundUnit & making some money  
again for other projects..
But that was depending of the DrumX success...(that hadn't time to  
happen.)
He made (in between 93 & 98) about 5 XRack ...

I think it collapsed about the end of 98 or 99...  I lost contact with  
him for a few years then ...

But since 1993, Simmons Factory was only Dave (Designing , building ,  
selling, answering to the phone, sending faxes , repairing,  etc etc  
etc ...) & Daphne Sear(assistant  secretary) , a small office , a cold  
workshop & a big Barn ...
He handly made or assembled everything he sold then ... building an  
SDX would take him a few weeks (& eventually months)...
So since 93(& even before in fact ...) sadly, it wasn't at all what  
happened in the eighties with the 120 people working in the St Alban  
factory...
But it showed Dave's determination.

anyway ...
it's about more than ten years ago now...

hope that helps ;-)
Patrice.




Le 26 oct. 09 à 11:38, superwolle70 a écrit :

> Probaly it still shrugged a bit in 1998 but are you sure that there  
> was still serious business and production going on in 1998?
>
> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, Patrice Jacquot  
> <Jacquot.Patrice@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > By the way ...
> > Simmons ( Sound Unit ) closed in 98 not in 95 !!!
> >
> >
> > Le 26 oct. 09 à 10:11, emuxl7 a écrit :
> >
> > > cool blog and some great pics!
> > >
> > > --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "superwolle70"
> > > <superwolle70@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello world,
> > > > meanwhile almost every day I get mails or visits by other  
> Simmons
> > > fans, I hear stories and gossip, many exciting (and sometimes even
> > > confident) things around Simmons drums are happening although the
> > > Simmons company does not produce anymore since 1995.
> > > > After checking several web 2.0 plattforms I decided to launch my
> > > own blog:http://simmonsmuseum.wordpress.com
> > > > I am confident to regularly add new topics and reports as I have
> > > regular and worthy input. And I think that a public blog is better
> > > then a news area or RSS feed on my site. Hope you like it and
> > > > best regards
> > > > Wolfgang
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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