Let me know when you figure it out.... PLEASE !!

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the ole lady says we need to find a house with as big a basement as the house. 2,500 sq ft. for my drums LoLoLoLo

I should take pics of my situation, but its time to go to bed.

ill put some on tomorrow..................

Your a sick man kev!!!

I'm a shelf guy. I keep two kits down for playing (one in each of two rooms) and one in cases for quick gig setup. The rest remain on the shelf and I rotate all of these so that ALL the kits get "action". This is an older pic. I've rotated some of these out and purchased others already. Hmmmm Maybe I still have a drum problem. INTERVENTION PLEASE!!!

pic???

Same as mcjnic, here. the working pile, awaiting restoration are on shelves in the garage. Restored, or at least clean and usable are in gig bags in a closet in my office (home office). I keep one kit set up normally.

I'm lucky to have some room at my band's rehearsal space to store gear. I've been playing an '80s Ludwig Classic kit (24-13-14-18+Coliseum snare), so that's what I leave set up (with a light cover thrown over them between weekly rehearsals). In the closet in their bags but otherwise ready to play is the old Slingerland kit (24-13-16-18) that used to be my main gigging kit. When we have road gigs I'll sometimes take just the kick, floor tom, and snare and leave the Luddies, so it's nice to have the Slingerlands accessible.

Then there's the Sonor Champion rosewood kit (22-12-13-16) that I love but haven't found much gigging use for. I only got them last year, so for a while they were set up for rehearsals and I kept the Slingies in their bags and ready to be hauled to gigs. Now the Sonors are stacked up in the corner and covered with a light bedspread. They're ready to be played, but I have to admit I'm not playing 'em at all.

My circa '71 Gretsch aqua satin flame kit (22-12-13-16), which in many ways is the best sounding of them all, is stacked up and mostly disassembled in my closet at home. I bought 'em used, rode 'em hard, and put 'em up wet for many years, and I have it in my head to finally do right by them, clean the wrap, glue down a loose spot on the bottom of the kick drum, and polish up all the chrome. It's a big enough job that they're languishing and I ought to do better by them as well.

Then there's my current restoration project, some pointy-edged Ludwig Vistalites (22-12-13-16-16) that are at our rehearsal space in another closet in various states of repair. But they need a top-down, complete disassembly and clean and polish. My order of Novus 1-2-3 came in last week, so I'm hopeful I'll be able to get after them over this holiday break.

Last is my little Whitehall (20-12-14) kit that I use for quiet gigs with a different band. They're in their bags in a corner at our rehearsal space and generally just get stored between gigs (it's not the kind of band that rehearses).

Snare drums--around a dozen--are kept half in a closet at my house with the Gretsch kit and half in a closet at the rehearsal space. Most of them are in bags or cases, but not all. I don't have too many cymbals, and all of them are either on stands being played or in a bag at the rehearsal space.

Geez, makes me tired just thinking about it. I've never kept this much stuff (also never had this much stuff) at a rehearsal space before, and I moved it in little by little. If we wind up moving out--and you almost always do eventually--it's going to be a bear finding a family-friendly spot for it.

Agreed.........

There's more snare drums somewhere.....

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It's tech geek speak for picture. Pict used to be a file type, which eventually became pic, but over time, it became the substitute for JPEG.

Just wondering where the pic is, I think?

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