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Fastnacht Society and was the director of their drum school for many years. In 1974, Greider performed at a Basel event called the Sticksland Meeting Two, which was captured as a live audio recording by George Gruntz. He also appeared at the Internationales Schlagzeug- und Percussion-festival in Metzingen, Germany in 1996 with the Basler Trommel-Ensemble.
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American Ancient drumming back to Switzerland and taught Swiss drummers to play in the American style. He would later tour around the United States visiting other drum corps teaching and promoting Fritz Berger's version
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periodical about Swiss rudiments, which he followed in 1969 with a vinyl LP, demonstrating the Swiss Basel style of drumming, entitled,
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