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Gretsch, Walberg and Auge or ????? Last viewed: 21 hours ago

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Thanks to everyone who has chimed in so quickly. This drum is the only thing I have from my first drum set so it mostly just has sentimental value to me, but I am hoping to incorporate it with a couple other old drums (early forties 7 x 14 Radio King snare and 1920's Ludwig 14 x 26 bass drum) all with calf skin heads, mainly for use in recording. I have a home studio where I add drums and percussion to peoples projects and send the files back to them. I'm hoping to have a "vibey" kit for lack of a better word. Does anyone know if new calf skin heads take a while to sound good or if it is a fairly quick break in period? (and again, please let me know if I should be starting a new thread for this question)

Posted on 16 years ago
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Cool old drum worthy of a restore. The lugs are collectible and the shell probably is an old Gretsch or Jasper shell. I don't know how close other specs are to Gretsch, though. I just bought a W&A 14" floor tom in Champagne and it is very similar to Gretsch, shell is the same but 16" deep instead of the 14" deep, and the lugs are the small lugs. The muffler is a Walberg design and the hoops are extra thick but triple-flanged, not diecast. This drum, dated 1966, has normal vintage drum key style tension rods, but I have hears of the Walberg & Auge hex tension rods. In fact I have never heard about black interiors but someone just said that was normal for old W&A? The only ones I've seen were late-50s up to 70s and they had clear interiors.

This ft I have does not have the same type bearing edges you'd see on Gretsch. Maybe W&A had to craft the edges in-house. The wrap looks like Gretsch Champagne, though. It will be put with my other Gretsch Champagne drums from roughly the same period.

Posted on 16 years ago
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It's a Walberg and Auge. Do you still have it?

Walberg and Auge: http://www.walbergandauge.com/
Posted on 11 years ago
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