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Vintage STAR 4-piece on Japan Auction
Must say that I, too, have strong doubts about the black wrap being original. All I know from catalogues of that aera is that black was mainly not lis...
15 years agoAnother STEWART drum set !!!
Yep. Ralf
15 years agoAnother STEWART drum set !!!
STAR drums (= the original drum manufacturer of these beauties) at it's best! Ralf
15 years agocrown snare
Did you use the 'Search' before?;) Here is, what appears then: http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=3529&highlight=crown http://www.vinta...
15 years agoBrass King Beat?
Brass ... I found two different metals as a translation for 'brass' ... Brass: the yellowish alloy and Brass: copper (in reddish colour). Indeed, my...
15 years agoCool M.i.j. Snare Drum
Pearl? - No. Wrap in 'Pearl Fantasia'? - Yes! So I put it to Star, to be found in the 1970s catalogue (the wrap). I've never seen such a wrap on any...
15 years agoMIJ stencil v.4 - Tempro BDP 3 piece
Congratulations!Clapping Happy2 I really do can imagine how you feel today (should be the same like at the day when I bought back my first drumset aft...
15 years agoCan anybody identify this COS (MIJ?) snare?
Sorry, but I don't think it's any Star snare drum. The bend over the base I've never seen at Star snare drums (and, too, not in any of jonnistix pics)...
15 years agoStar/Hoshino/TAMA--Slingerland/CBS Can it be?
Wayne: you don't like DW's? - 'cause Camco will lead us automatically to them. I'll find it very interesting to add this branch to the family tree. A...
15 years agoStar/Hoshino/TAMA--Slingerland/CBS Can it be?
Well done, Jonnistix. Although I feel a little bit like an audience - as good old Europe appeared not to be the key market in the 60s/beginning 70s fo...
15 years agoPicked This Little Guy Up Today
Wait a minute ....Hmmmm ... I've seen that characteristic snare strainer before ... I KNOW there was a company, that had been doing hardware besides t...
15 years agoApollo Kit
The wrap of your green kit is correctly called, at Star's: 'Green Agate Pearl'. Must agree with cn679 concerning green drums. Besides yellow this is...
15 years agoWhere does this tom come from?
Agreed, jonnistix! Ralf
15 years agoWhere does this tom come from?
'...Finally, looking at that last pic of the tom's mounting piece, the smudges in the wrap around the diamond shaped piece seem to indicate that there...
15 years agoWhere does this tom come from?
Thanx, guys. I appreciate greatly your information. So, I have a mix of a Star bass drum and a Pearl rack tom as my third 'drumset' (just standing aro...
15 years ago