About LocalDrumShops.com
Local Drum Shops is a technical and business research project covering retail music stores in North America specializing in drums and percussion.
The stores on the localdrumshops.com list meet these criteria:
- Their primary focus is drums and percussion instruments.
- They have a physical store location.
- They stock drum and percussion items from a variety of manufacturers.
Please contact localdrumshops@gmail.com for corrections, updates, or suggestions.
FAQ
- What's the purpose of localdrumshops.com?
- The site is business-oriented but is for anyone interested in the topics of drum gear and specialty retailing. We want the site to be interesting to drummers, students, business owners, and prospective business owners.
- What are your data sources?
- Most of the demographic data comes from the US Census Bureau, Statistics Canada, and private statistics platforms. For the more specific data, we've built specialized web crawlers that periodically crawl each store's website to document information such as which products, services, and brands each store offers.
- Isn't web crawling illegal, or at least a little creepy?
- Web crawling is the primary source of information for search engines like Google and Bing. It's a common practice, and when done ethically it's usually welcomed by owners of commercial web sites. Our crawlers are harmless: they don't do anything but navigate the stores' public sites and look for keywords like "Ludwig" and "Drum Lessons".
- Does the site use artificial intelligence?
- All of the graphics on the site (other than the store photos) are partially or entirely AI-generated. The summary and key-advantages section of each store's Competitive Profile are AI-generated. The Drum Shop Simulator uses AI for the location feasibility assessment, some of the suggested store names, and parts of the business plan and lean canvas.