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I like old drums

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Is this a Ludwig?

looks like an old 6.5x14 Pioneer. I can barely see the strainer, but it looks like part of the predecessor to the p-83...

18 years ago
Ludwig Standard Strata Finish Variations

Someone mentioned that the interiors were painted differently, but right around the time that the Standards were introduced (late 60s) the Classics st...

18 years ago
Kent Drum

[QUOTE] The shells should be thin and have no reinforcement rings (like Ludwigs). [QUOTE] I'm confused with this statement... Ludwigs had reinforcem...

18 years ago
Are vintage drums all they can be?

I like them all! Except the stupid ones... :) New Yammies and some DW I've heard, as well as the really small very good custom builders (Ayotte, Brady...

18 years ago
Need help pricing and dating a Ludwig snare

pretty sure that's the Hammered Bronze SupraPhonic. My regular online retailer has those at $465 for the 5x14. Looks like PureSound snare wires, too...

18 years ago
Dixie Snare Help

That's what some call a stencil drum... really a term stolen from early 20th century piano marketing. One company makes a whole bunch of low-mid rang...

18 years ago
please help identify these ludwigs

the thing that's throwing me off is the white paint in the bass drum and not in the toms. That makes me think the toms are older, not newer. It's no...

18 years ago
please help identify these ludwigs

wait... the bass drum is of a different era... it has the white paint... in '69 they switched over to the parallelogram badge, I'm guessing they coul...

18 years ago
please help identify these ludwigs

What in the flippity-blastin' heck? Those look like WFL's from the 50s! why would someone try to disquise them as 70s era drums? Maybe someone out t...

18 years ago
$4 Ludwig Snare

great drum, great price! I didn't see anyone mention a color, but the early acrolites are a matte silver (lightly finished aluminum) then they went a...

18 years ago
Gretsch Round Badge strainer questions...

I was thinking a micro would have been about right. But the weird thing is that there is the lighting with no other holes around it... the butt side...

18 years ago
Ludwig snare

just so you know... Ludwig was infamous for assigning serial numbers in a completely nonsensical fashion. A better description could tell more. What...

18 years ago
Newbie getting started--round badge snare

as to the proper care of the chrome, there are better qualified people here than I. I just use an ammonia free glass cleaner if they're off the drum,...

18 years ago
Calling Ludwig Configurations Gurus

what they call the silly 12-13-14-16-18-24? Had the triple tom mount on the bass drum... I only have a '79 catalog and that weird crap is long gone.

18 years ago
1972 Ludwig 5 piece sky blue pearl

beuts! And like most 70s kits found in attics, now you have to find all the rims for the bottom heads! sure glad my dad used those little hoop clips...

18 years ago