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Slingerland Set-o-Matic receiver placement
When you think about it, the old style of clip-on hoop mount for toms placed the mounted tom closer to the player than the rail consolette or early Se...
3 years agoSlingerland Set-o-Matic receiver placement
There is a post on Facebook in a Slingerlland forum there about the placement of the tom receiver on the bass drum. One person commented that the plac...
3 years agoWeighing Cymbals
The scale arrived, and works quite well to weigh my cymbals. In all my years of playing drum sets, cymbal weight in grams never mattered to me. A cymb...
3 years agoWeighing Cymbals
I'm calling off the search because I found a scale on Amazon that will weigh items up to 22 pounds--that's nearly ten thousand grams. The scale sold f...
3 years agoWeighing Cymbals
Hey folks...Call off the search party. I just found a scale on Amazon that will weigh items up to 22 pounds--almost ten thousand grams. I have gift ce...
3 years agoWeighing Cymbals
I need to weigh a few dozen of my vintage Zildjian cymbals. I would like to buy an inexpensive and accurate scale that will tell me the weights in gra...
3 years agoWeighing Cymbals
OK...I know that there is a separate section for cymbal-related posts. But, I think that most of us are like me, and rarely, if ever, look in that sec...
3 years agolast colaiuta snare - gretsch die cast hoops
These old man eyes think that they detect slight differences.
3 years agoVintage Camco Sighting
I would have preferred Swivo tom mounts to the Camco mounts that came on the set when I got it in either 1964 or 1965.
3 years agolast colaiuta snare - gretsch die cast hoops
Sourcing for the metal drum components from different suppliers can result in some variations.
3 years agoThe worst thing that happened to vintage drums
I've resisted posting another of my pet peeve issues with mistreatment of great old drums until now. I just couldn't hold it back any longer. There ar...
3 years agolast colaiuta snare - gretsch die cast hoops
In my not so humble opinion, they are all Gretsch drums with die cast hoops. It doesn't matter if one hoop is a bit taller than the another one. Those...
3 years agoShow us your Satin Flame drums
The 1961 Slingerland 7 x 14 snare drum that i acquired with my 1968 Lavender Satin Flame set had been repainted in black lacquer. I bought the closest...
3 years agoShow us your Satin Flame drums
As I had guessed, we Satin Flame drum fanciers are a small community of off-kilter drummers. I think that there must still be some more of us in this...
3 years agoShow us your Satin Flame drums
The Avocado Satin Flame is very interesting. I almost pulled the trigger on a Gretsch five- piece-set in that wrap.
3 years ago