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Gretsch RB Maple Finish
Scene: A photography studio located in a loft in Brooklyn in the mid 1960's. Charlie Persip, a jazz drummer of some renown, enters carrying a set of...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
From Osahead2...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
I think this all boils down to two questions. 1. Did Gretsch EVER produce ANY natural maple finish drums at ANY point during the Round Badge era? an...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
I don't see how an old invoice would be any more convincing than an advertisement that Gretsch placed in music magazines showing a photo of Charlie wi...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
From Osahead2...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
From Osahead2...
9 years agoPlease can you help identify this drum
Appears to be a marching Tenor drum, probably from the 70's. The rope sort of thing is decorative. My high school marching band used the metal shelled...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
That Charlie Persip ad is proof enough for me. Gretsch would have hired the photographer and the ad agency. They would not have done all this and let...
9 years agoGretsch RB Maple Finish
But that means they do exist (just in very small numbers). I know one is pictured on the cover of one of Ted Reed's drum books which came out in the l...
9 years ago1959 Ludwig WFL Snare Identification
Some Jazz Festivals have 5.5" deep shells (Ringo's for example). It seems that either the workers didn't pay that close of attention to what shell th...
9 years ago1959 Ludwig WFL Snare Identification
Duco was the brand of (DuPont) fast drying lacquer they used and you could special order any color you wanted by sending a sample to Ludwig (one assum...
9 years agoSlingerland,set o matics...
From the 76 catalog...at least my '76 catalog...
9 years agoSlingerland,set o matics...
SSOM isn't in the '73 catalog (probably published in 1972) but is in the '76 catalog (probably issued in 1975) so it falls between the cracks for cata...
9 years agoHow rare a Vistalite kit???
From schmegeggie...
9 years agoHow rare a Vistalite kit???
The Vista Super Sensitives were cataloged so they were readily available. It's a matter of how many customers may have ordered one as to whether they...
9 years ago