Pollard Syndrum

The Pollard Syndrum is a drum synthesizer system with modules triggered by separate pads. It was introduced in 1976 as one of the earliest of such to the music market.

Stewart Copeland had a Pollard Syndrum, as seen in 1983 photos of his Worried Rabbit studio (somewhere in Oxfordshire) by Erica Echenberg. Drum technician Jeff Seitz remembers Stewart using these (with two pads) when he joined The Police's touring crew: which would be around January 1980. However, the majority of photos from this time show the TAMA drum synthesizer instead which had been used since the beginning of the tour. Even if Stewart did toy with the Syndrum briefly, he seemed to prefer the DS-200.