Who we are

The Drum Refurb Shoppe is owned and operated by Kyle Maxwell-Doherty. The shoppe was born out of love for all things vintage drum and percussion equipment. He acquired his first vintage instrument in 2013, when he purchased a 1920’s Deagan Artist Special 266 Xylophone. And since then it has been a joy to play and restore the drums of old. As a musician, Kyle has performed in esteemed New York City venues like The Blue Note, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and many other halls throughout the U.S. and Canada. He continues to be an active performer but in the spring of 2020, Kyle dove headfirst into drum and percussion restoration. He loves sending good vibes out into the community through the joy of seeing old items come back to life.

The Drum Refurb Shoppe opened its socially distant digital doors in 2020 and has quickly become a preferred seller on Reverb.com. New (or rather newly acquired vintage) items are always coming through the shoppe so keep checking back in or follow our social media to see what vintage items become available.

Some say Orange is the new Black, we like to think that Vintage is the new New!

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Hit us up if you have refurbishing needs or have questions about your gear.

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Owner

Kyle Maxwell-Doherty

Kyle resides in Dallas, Texas working as a freelance percussionist and dance musician. He performs regularly with the Radio City Rockettes Orchestra, the Grammy Award Winning cast of Hamilton: An American Musical, and has performed at esteemed venues such as Madison Square Garden, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Blue Note.

He received his Doctor of Musical Arts at The University of Arizona in 2018 with his research focusing on dance choreography notation as it relates to the gestural-based percussion compositions of Wayne Siegel, Casey Cangelosi and Mark Applebaum.

Kyle performs regularly in Atlas Percussion with percussionists Scott Shinbara and Alex Wier. He has performed at the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP), the Society of Electro Acoustic Music In the United State (SEAMUS), the Bob McCormick Marimba Festival, the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention (PASIC), the International Festival of Percussion at the Conservatorio de Musica in San Juan Puerto Rico, the Minnesota Day of Percussion (MNPAS), the Nebraska Day of Percussion (NEPAS), and the Omaha-Under The Radar Festival. And in 2009 he performed the North American Premier of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Linker Augentanz at the North American Saxophone Alliance's convention.

Kyle is proud to represent and have industry support from Vic Firth and Alternate Mode Inc.

He is thankful for many of his teachers including Dr. Norman Weinberg, Dr. David Eyler, Bob Becker, Bernard Woma, Matthew Altmire, and Dr. Steven Makela.

Visit kylejmaxwelldoherty.com for more information.