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Personal-experience drum-ordering thread
When I was 13 years old, I went into the only music store around -30 miles from my home...with my parents on the occasions that they needed to get som...
5 years ago60's Ludwig Kits - sequential serial numbers?
I can tell my own similar (and similarly irrelevant) story about how I went into the music store and ordered my own dream set, too. Many, many people...
5 years agoLeg Cramps After Drumming
Yep. Potassium deficiency. Bananas are good. Almost instant relief comes from drinking a bottle of tonic water. The quinine in it goes right to work t...
5 years ago60's Ludwig Kits - sequential serial numbers?
Yeah again, what one could do wasn't the general rule for how Ludwig sold drum sets. It was always an option for a customer to order what they wanted,...
5 years agoEver see this before? 2 badges on bass drum
Well...I'm not sure about this theory....but I don't have any other guesses!..... I think the shell might have accidentally had the holes for the spu...
5 years agoThe True Go kit
He would be a great resource to have in our community. I wonder how to get ahold of him.
5 years ago60's Ludwig Kits - sequential serial numbers?
It appears to be a rewrapped 12" to me. The badge has obviously been removed from the looks of that grommet. Silver sparkle wrap is common and easily...
5 years agoPlease help me to id this kit!
That middle "tom" looks conIcal to me -like a large bongo. At first, I was almost going to say it might be a Quadra Plus....but I'm not so sure.
5 years agoThe True Go kit
You can kind of see how the old kits were set up to showcase a contraption at at a time like an orchestral percussionist might approach it and less se...
5 years agoEver see this before? 2 badges on bass drum
Can you take a picture of the outside of the bass drum shell where the spurs come out? I am still studying this and cooking up a theory of what might...
5 years agoThe True Go kit
I love that channel and those old kits!
5 years ago60's Ludwig Kits - sequential serial numbers?
Yep, I agree with BEC.
5 years agoPlease help me to id this kit!
I dunno...the concert toms appear to have a metal band on the bottom ...not Ludwig. Lugs on toms look triangular....Sonor, maybe? Something seems Eur...
5 years agoEver see this before? 2 badges on bass drum
I'd need to see the interiors and many more detailed close up pics.....I have my suspicions what this might be but I will hold off for now.
5 years agoThe newbie and the 1950’s Slingerland Drum Set
Hi, Jeff Great looking kit. You really don't see too many kits which are that complete with hardware and cymbals anymore. That, and the "Duco" finish...
5 years ago