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The story behind STEVENS STOMPERS® is an American
folk history in and of itself. Walt Stevens had always loved
clogging, so he and his wife Marti
Stevens formed the Burlington County 4-H Cloggers in Mt. Holly,
N.J. At the time the club began, clogging taps were made from cast aluminum. This posed a problem for cloggers because they would frequently crack. Walt had the idea to make the taps from STEEL. Since Walt was an engineer, Marti suggested that he go ahead and design a steel tap. This was a totally revolutionary idea. Steel taps would be stronger and have a better sound. Thus STEVENS STOMPERS® were born. The strength of steel also allowed them to be thinner and have better tap action. But as anyone who has ever tried to turn a great idea into reality knows, the "sweat" really begins after you get the inspiration. Walt worked out of the family garage and cobbled a few steel prototypes together and danced on them, himself. Once he had a workable design, he endeavored to have steel dies made to punch out the taps. This is a highly expensive proposition. So funds were very tight. At one point in the process, Walt and Marti had invested all of their cash into the dies and advertising. There was no money in the household to buy food. So, Marti, ever the resourceful one, gathered up scrap copper tubing from the basement from when the plumbing had been installed. This netted her $26.00, so she could go grocery shopping!! Sales started very slowly, as word of the revolutionary tap design began to circulate in the clogging community. At the request of cloggers, Walt and Marti began offering additional products to cloggers. STEVENS STOMPERS® Taps are still proudly made in America, and the company now has about a half-dozen employees. |
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