How big is Neil Peart's drum set?

Answer 1

Neil Peart currently playes an 11 piece DW Set

- 22" Bass
- 8", 10", 12" and 13" Toms
- 2-15", 16" and 18" Floor Toms - The 18" is mounted like a Gong Bass
- 2 snares. His main snare is a signature DW edge and the second is a piccolo.

He uses his own line of signature Paragon Cymbals from Sabian, 12 of them.

- 22" Ride
- 2-16", 18" and 20" Crashes
- 8" and 2-10" Splashes
- 13" and 14" Hi-hats
- 19" and 20" Chinese

In addition, to round his 360 degree set, he uses customized Roland electronic drums, a Midi-Kat (electronic Marimba) and other useful accessories.

It's quite big.

His R30 annivesary kit has all gold plated hardware and is valued at over $60,000.

Answer 2

With Rush, Peart has played Slingerland, Tama, Ludwig, and Drum Workshop (DW) drums, in that order. Historically he has played Zildjian cymbals exclusively (from the "A" series, save for various effect cymbals, like Wuhan China cymbals), switching only very recently to Paragon, a line created for him by Sabian. In concert, Peart uses an elaborate 360-degree drum kit, with a large acoustic set in front and electronic drums to the rear. During the late 1970s, Peart accessorized and augmented his acoustic setup with diverse percussion instruments including orchestra bells, tubular bells, wind chimes, crotales, timbales, tympani, gong, temple blocks, bell tree, triangle, and melodic cowbells. Since the mid-1980s, Peart has replaced several of these pieces with MIDI trigger pads. This was done in order to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much stage area, such as a marimba, harp, temple blocks, triangles, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, tubular bells, and vibraslap. Some purely electronic, description-defying sounds are also used.

Answer 3

freakin huge

Answer 4

I would expect it to be REALLY big!

Answer 5

as big as his ego.