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Is this a Ludwig?
looks like an old 6.5x14 Pioneer. I can barely see the strainer, but it looks like part of the predecessor to the p-83...
18 years agoLudwig Standard Strata Finish Variations
Someone mentioned that the interiors were painted differently, but right around the time that the Standards were introduced (late 60s) the Classics st...
18 years agoKent Drum
[QUOTE] The shells should be thin and have no reinforcement rings (like Ludwigs). [QUOTE] I'm confused with this statement... Ludwigs had reinforcem...
18 years agoAre vintage drums all they can be?
I like them all! Except the stupid ones... :) New Yammies and some DW I've heard, as well as the really small very good custom builders (Ayotte, Brady...
18 years agoNeed help pricing and dating a Ludwig snare
pretty sure that's the Hammered Bronze SupraPhonic. My regular online retailer has those at $465 for the 5x14. Looks like PureSound snare wires, too...
18 years agoDixie Snare Help
That's what some call a stencil drum... really a term stolen from early 20th century piano marketing. One company makes a whole bunch of low-mid rang...
18 years agoplease help identify these ludwigs
the thing that's throwing me off is the white paint in the bass drum and not in the toms. That makes me think the toms are older, not newer. It's no...
18 years agoplease help identify these ludwigs
wait... the bass drum is of a different era... it has the white paint... in '69 they switched over to the parallelogram badge, I'm guessing they coul...
18 years agoplease help identify these ludwigs
What in the flippity-blastin' heck? Those look like WFL's from the 50s! why would someone try to disquise them as 70s era drums? Maybe someone out t...
18 years ago$4 Ludwig Snare
great drum, great price! I didn't see anyone mention a color, but the early acrolites are a matte silver (lightly finished aluminum) then they went a...
18 years agoGretsch Round Badge strainer questions...
I was thinking a micro would have been about right. But the weird thing is that there is the lighting with no other holes around it... the butt side...
18 years agoLudwig snare
just so you know... Ludwig was infamous for assigning serial numbers in a completely nonsensical fashion. A better description could tell more. What...
18 years agoNewbie getting started--round badge snare
as to the proper care of the chrome, there are better qualified people here than I. I just use an ammonia free glass cleaner if they're off the drum,...
18 years agoCalling Ludwig Configurations Gurus
what they call the silly 12-13-14-16-18-24? Had the triple tom mount on the bass drum... I only have a '79 catalog and that weird crap is long gone.
18 years ago1972 Ludwig 5 piece sky blue pearl
beuts! And like most 70s kits found in attics, now you have to find all the rims for the bottom heads! sure glad my dad used those little hoop clips...
18 years ago