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Help me identify the kit please
From Astroida...
13 years agoMike Curotto Have You Heard Of This Snare?
I wasn't confusing the William Hart drum with my reference to The R.S. Williams & Sons CO. I was just commenting on the location and author of the p...
13 years agoMike Curotto Have You Heard Of This Snare?
Just a late note to an old post. The R.S. Williams & Sons Co. , probably distributed Ludwig & Ludwig, in Canada . They were a very large musical instr...
13 years agoBlue Marble Ajax Snare
From Nutbox...
13 years agoHelp me identify the kit please
The lugs on the snare are also the Taiwan, Pearl style lugs. It does look like the snare and bass drum belong together. Date wise, yes ,it is probably...
13 years agoHelp me identify the kit please
Lefima has had a bit of a roller coaster history. They do indeed date from way back----no reason to doubt 1861 but since they were in East Germany aft...
13 years agoname that snare
I don't know, Dave. It has the little black celluloid badge that I mentioned above and exactly the same lugs as yours. The only drums that I have ever...
13 years agoCarlton Badge
I have seen that little design of the drum shell with the pair of sticks before----associated with Gigster drums. The general design though, has a...
13 years agoSonor Phonics---Am I missing something?
So, it sounds like around 1980 or so they started purchasing shell material , rather than making it? It is interesting that sometime around then(not...
13 years agoname that snare
Very nice looking drum Dave. The red pearl is a winner. The shell doesn't look to be Mahogany-----it's lighter, more like Birch. Since there has been...
13 years agoSonor Phonics---Am I missing something?
From OddBall...
13 years agoBlue Marble Ajax Snare
That one is the darker blue pearl. Interesting that it says " oak shell". That would make it a very uncommon shell, if it is true. Since your drum...
13 years agoBlue Marble Ajax Snare
The only one I have seen in that light blue, other than yours was a Stratford. All of the Ajax I have seen in blue pearl were the dark one. I think th...
13 years agoBlue Marble Ajax Snare
When you get it , check the serial# and have a look for the identifying holes that attached the badge. Those two things together should help pin it do...
13 years agoZyn cymbals with eyelets.....
Any Zyn hi-hats ,I have been around( about 10 or 12 pair) have been quite light----less than 600gm. for 14"ers and some 13's under 500gm. This is true...
13 years ago