Not me but my 17 year old. Plays with the High school (award winning) Jazz band, also percussionist with their (award winning!) concert "Big" band.
He will be off to University to study music next year (If he survives his Gap year in Europe......).
After several years with his $400 starter kit, as promised we bought him a good kit. Yamaha oak custom.
We had to factory order the colour.
Then coincidentally John "JR" Robinson was doing a charity concert in Calgary the same time as they arrived. As we had ordered the exact same set that he plays, they asked if he could borrow them for the concert & they will knock 15% off the price! We took the deal!
Unfortunately we had to give back the signature edition snare when ours turned up a couple of weeks later!
We did score some realy good spare heads though!
p.s. At this very moment we have 6 menbers of the band at the house all with their instuments .... However, they are playing "Rock Band" on the XBox... go figure....