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Millenium adds MPS-1500 Hybrid-X

September 2

Millenium has unveiled the MPS-1500 Hybrid-X, an electronic drum kit that combines full-size acoustic-style shells with an unusually compact approach to the brain of the instrument: instead of a conventional drum module,

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