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Birth of the Turret Lug Confirmed?

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Hi Friends,

Last year I picked up a beautiful '53 Leedy & Ludwig time capsule kit and during our discussion on the kit here on VDF...we noticed that the cymbal arm mount on the bass drum looked like a George Way/Camco/DW turret lug. Well, last night on the Leedy Facebook group I'm a part of, someone posted a Leedy & Ludwig catalog scan from 1954 that shows my exact cymbal holder setup and it is referred to as a Turret cymbal holder! Mine is the adjustable one on the left. Just thought I would share my newfound knowledge. I would also be interested in knowing if anyone else has ever seen one of these on another Leedy & Ludwig kit. I think it's a pretty rare accessory and it works great, by the way.

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Posted on 10 years ago
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Thank you for that. Very interesting.

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Hijo de la chingada! That's an interesting piece of drum history you found there. That thing, minus the butterfly tension key on top -is- a turret lug! George Way had to have known about that cymbal mount and simply converted it to use as a lug for his drum line.

Nice detective work, Aaron! Interesting stuff. :D

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Posted on 10 years ago
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From Purdie Shuffle

Hijo de la chingada! That's an interesting piece of drum history you found there. That thing, minus the butterfly tension key on top -is- a turret lug! George Way had to have known about that cymbal mount and simply converted it to use as a lug for his drum line.Nice detective work, Aaron! Interesting stuff. :DJohn

John...as far as I have read, George Way was still at Leedy & Ludwig at this time, so I'm guessing he invented the part and then used it as his own lug design! He was the man.

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Posted on 10 years ago
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Too bad he didn't use it for his Camco floor tom leg mounts...

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Posted on 10 years ago
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DW owns pretty much everything to Mr George Way. Every person I know who digs DW always refer to the turret lugs as the reason they like DW. Very few say anything about their sound (which to me is nothing spectacular).

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Posted on 10 years ago
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a bit about the man:

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Posted on 10 years ago
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From Gary N

a bit about the man:

Cool article...thanks for sharing!

Aaron

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Posted on 10 years ago
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This is also where the George way/ camco shells came from, Jasper shells supplied Leedy Ludwig shells also.

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Posted on 10 years ago
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George Way worked for Leedy during the 20s and 30s. He invented a lot of stuff.

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