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Simmons was *the* emblematic electronic drums maker of the 80s. Their hexagonal pads where the then-craze, and significant drummers like Bill
Bruford endorsed them at the time. Their flashy design and characteristic sound was at the time a major improvement over earlier products in the same vein.
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Simmons name is already lost within that article; a link from the word
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Simmons was a company that manufactured electronic drums. Regardless of all that, this topic is not interesting enough for me to add additional detail, though I oppose its deletion.
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For that reason, although these existing products remain an icon in electronic music, like the
Minimoog, the Linn drum or the Roland TR808, and the article should not be deleted but expanded. Someone put up a very good history page about Simmons at
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