{"id":70,"date":"2014-12-09T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:25:37","slug":"the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"The Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20141119_074451_585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20141119_074451_585-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20141119_074451_585\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20141119_074451_585-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_20141119_074451_585-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most elegant drum key design I have encountered.\u00a0 I first got this key at the end of grammar school.\u00a0 It came with the Tama Hi-Beat bass drum pedal that replaced the CB 700 pedal which had fallen apart.\u00a0 That was one of my first purchases of real professional drum equipment.\u00a0 I had the key all through high school and college.\u00a0 I lost it shortly after I graduated when it fell out of my pocket at Malcom X Park in DC.<\/p>\n<p>So after several years of a standing search on EBay, another one has finally found it&#8217;s way to me.\u00a0 And I only had to buy 4 other keys along with this one to get it!<\/p>\n<p>It fits in the hand so nicely.\u00a0 The curve of the bend makes it so comfortable.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so easy to get to the bass drum tension\u00a0 rods by the pedal. It gets good leverage.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why these keys weren&#8217;t more popular and why Tama made so few.\u00a0 I never saw anyone else with one.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else out there knows where I can get another one, in case I lose this one, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>And anybody need any regular keys?\u00a0 I have a bunch I can donate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most elegant drum key design I have encountered.\u00a0 I first got this key at the end of grammar school.\u00a0 It came with the Tama Hi-Beat bass drum pedal that replaced the CB 700 pedal which had fallen apart.\u00a0 That was one of my first purchases of real professional drum equipment.\u00a0 I had the key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Key<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","tag-drum-key","tag-l-key","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonbonfera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}