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Trixon also made standard drum kits with round bass heads, one of which Ringo Starr played in Hamburg on the last club dates in Hamburg; a borrowed kit. (He was a Premier player until he switched to Ludwig before the band broke internationally.)
One of the founders of Sabian, Robert Zildian was a WWII US Army vet who was on a patrol that encountered a group of German men in civvies that turned out to be musicians. One of those, Karl Heinz Weimer, would go on to found the Trixon Drum company whose product in the 1950s was the Speedfire, with an oblong shaped bass drum.