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Mounting rack toms
Hi guys. Knew the kinky post title would get you. Need some of the site's savvy on this one. After years, well, after decades of using snare mounts fo...
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
Hmm. He's got another set up this week and bidding jumped quickly to 255. Then over night, it dropped to 142. Not sure how that happens.
12 years agoFlea bite
Thanks John. There's one little sharp edge that I can take care of. And that saddest thing Bill is I got a case. Had my other five in it back at home...
12 years agoFlea bite
Still can't believe I did it. Carrying three things at once last night and dropped a vintage Zildjian A crash on the driveway. Big noise. Big dope! I'...
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
Good to know, sd. His ebay record is impeccable, his gear seems to be impeccable and if I'm retired and got a basement full of vintage stuff to want t...
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
Man, got sniped again last night. It looks like he had five bids in the last 35 seconds for some 1955 jazz hats. Congrats, whoever got 'em. But in tw...
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
I'll tell you Shawn, the last five minutes of those auctions are like Pork Chop Hill. I've been shot down four or five times in the last 15 seconds.
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
Thanks, Joey. That's very kind. His listing says he's in Morrisville, which I believe is just across the river from Trenton? I'm not suggesting anythi...
12 years agoRetired Philly jazz drummer
I've been stalking some Zildjian vintage hi hat cymbals -- 15" from the '50s -- for some time and keep coming upon the same seller on ebay who has wha...
12 years ago15" Zildjian Hi-hats. Trans-stamp? value?
Where did you find them, David? These are not so common. They look pretty sharp, too. Any dings?
12 years agoZildjian hats question
Trying to be an informed consumer. What differences -- in manufacturing, sound, value -- are there between the Zildjian Trans-stamp period and the ear...
12 years agoHow thin is thin?
HA! Calfskin and touche. But most of the old jazz 15's I've come across are 950-plus to 1100. I've heard a recording of these babies and they appear t...
12 years agoHow thin is thin?
That's my thinking, Shawn. I'm a blues/small room (hell, living room) player and keep it generally light. But I recall my first hi hat pies decades ag...
12 years agoHow thin is thin?
Lads, I'm thinking about buying some old Zildjian 15" hi hats cymbals and am wondering about the weights (780g, 818g). That'd be light for 12". I'm no...
12 years agoPoll: what do you damp your kick drum with?
Gigging in the summer of '74. Started loading up the kit in the back of my Datsun pickup where I discovered someone had left a small pillow -- looked...
13 years ago