A famous microphone importer once replied years ago to Electro-Voice's promise that their microphones would survive being used as hammers, by saying that if any of his customers needed a hammer, he would send them one. We really don't recommend that people use e22S's to play drums with, and sadly, the warranty really doesn't apply if you knock the head off.
There are some trick applications in the manual that comes with the microphones. One special approach (which works with any two well matched cardioids, but particularly well with e22Ss) is to use put one mic above and one below a drum that you want to isolate from the rest of the kit. Flip the phase of one of them before you mix them together. Any distant sound will cancel out, leaving only the sound of the drum head between the two mics.
e22S are particularly good for any close-up sound application where you need clean pickup of high sound levels, like fiddle or electric guitar amps.
