Article: KENT MAN DRUMS UP $2 MILLION INVESTMENT AIMS TO SPUR PRODUCTION OF `SPACEMUFFINS'.(Business)

One could argue that Al Adinolfi marches to the beat of a different drum - his own.

Adinolfi, 44 ((age)), is president, janitor and chief drum-beater for Alternative Percussion/Boom Theory in Kent, a 5-year-old company that makes the high-tech electronic drums he calls Spacemuffins and builds himself in an old granary in Kent.

He is an unorthodox businessman, a high-school dropout who is a self-taught (``I'm a total autodidact'') electronics wizard and musician.

His ``in-your-face'' style - the company's logo is: ``Electronic and all maple acoustic percussion hand crafted by one angry Italian for no-talent scum like you'' - has earned him fans ...

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