Securing drums from theft on stage

[Keith Runfola]

How does one secure a drum kit that sits 24/7 on a stage in a busy
restaurant? The cymbals and snare go home with me of course.
So we are talking about a BD, tom, and perhaps floor tom.
I don't need protection from a determined thief with a bolt cutter,
(that's an unlikely scenario in any case) but from the casual grab and
run theft.
I'm picturing a strong wire of some kind, threaded through the lugs,
if you know what I mean, so that if you want to grab and run with one
drum, you have to grab them all.
The wire would need to be very low-key visually because the restaurant
would not want something it considers un-sightly on the stage.
I have a vague image in my head of a chain or wire (used perhaps as a
bicycle lock) with transparent plastic covering it which lessens the
visibility. I feel like I've seen that before.
It also wouldn't stop a guy with a drum key but that's also very
unlikely. I just want to defend against the crime of opportunity.


Keith Runfola
www.JazzDrummer.com
www.GreenOakArts.com

[-MIKE-]

Post by Keith Runfola
How does one secure a drum kit that sits 24/7 on a stage in a busy
restaurant? The cymbals and snare go home with me of course.
So we are talking about a BD, tom, and perhaps floor tom.
I don't need protection from a determined thief with a bolt cutter,
(that's an unlikely scenario in any case) but from the casual grab and
run theft.
I'm picturing a strong wire of some kind, threaded through the lugs,
if you know what I mean, so that if you want to grab and run with one
drum, you have to grab them all.
The wire would need to be very low-key visually because the restaurant
would not want something it considers un-sightly on the stage.
I have a vague image in my head of a chain or wire (used perhaps as a
bicycle lock) with transparent plastic covering it which lessens the
visibility. I feel like I've seen that before.
It also wouldn't stop a guy with a drum key but that's also very
unlikely. I just want to defend against the crime of opportunity.
Keith Runfola
www.JazzDrummer.com
www.GreenOakArts.com

Hmmmmm, you got me thinking.

It would be cool to have something similar to those cable computer locks.
But I'm thinking the business end would push into the air vent on the
shell, then as you turn, wings would come out like a toggle bolt, to
lock it to the shell.

I'll have a set ready for you in about 2 years, after I get the patent
and set up manufacturing overseas.

Of course, it'll cost you $2300, since the market is limited to you and
the other 100 or so guys who leave their drums set in a club/restaurant.
:-)

[jergin]

I always take my cymbals with me--I then use a cover to place over the
drums, that completly hides them from view--And most important-i amke
certain everyone knows who I am-and that I am the ONLY person allowed to be
near them-and that nobODY is to be near them If I or the band are not around

Post by Keith Runfola
How does one secure a drum kit that sits 24/7 on a stage in a busy
restaurant? The cymbals and snare go home with me of course.
So we are talking about a BD, tom, and perhaps floor tom.
I don't need protection from a determined thief with a bolt cutter,
(that's an unlikely scenario in any case) but from the casual grab and
run theft.
I'm picturing a strong wire of some kind, threaded through the lugs,
if you know what I mean, so that if you want to grab and run with one
drum, you have to grab them all.
The wire would need to be very low-key visually because the restaurant
would not want something it considers un-sightly on the stage.
I have a vague image in my head of a chain or wire (used perhaps as a
bicycle lock) with transparent plastic covering it which lessens the
visibility. I feel like I've seen that before.
It also wouldn't stop a guy with a drum key but that's also very
unlikely. I just want to defend against the crime of opportunity.
Keith Runfola
www.JazzDrummer.com
www.GreenOakArts.com

[Todd H]

Post by Keith Runfola
How does one secure a drum kit that sits 24/7 on a stage in a busy
restaurant? The cymbals and snare go home with me of course.
So we are talking about a BD, tom, and perhaps floor tom.
I don't need protection from a determined thief with a bolt cutter,
(that's an unlikely scenario in any case) but from the casual grab and
run theft.
I'm picturing a strong wire of some kind, threaded through the lugs,
if you know what I mean, so that if you want to grab and run with one
drum, you have to grab them all.
The wire would need to be very low-key visually because the restaurant
would not want something it considers un-sightly on the stage.
I have a vague image in my head of a chain or wire (used perhaps as a
bicycle lock) with transparent plastic covering it which lessens the
visibility. I feel like I've seen that before.
It also wouldn't stop a guy with a drum key but that's also very
unlikely. I just want to defend against the crime of opportunity.

Nylon coated cable would do this for ya.

Black
http://www.stageriggingonline.com/blacvincoatg.html

White
http://www.stageriggingonline.com/whvicoaica.html

Same place also has clear.

Security plate for securing to stage
http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/it.A/id.3289/.f