Yes, Sonor set's complete from the 50's are hard to fine in the U.S. even 60's Sonor set's are hard to fine....Mikey

They show up occasionally but I've never seen one in A-1 shape, or complete.There were not that many sold. Sonor wasn't a huge seller in N.A. ,until the market for European made drums opened up in the early 70's, with the demise of 3 competing companies.

I've only seen one of them and it was one I owned. Wish I had them back because they sounded fantastic. Even so, the mounted tom measured about 12 1/2" in diameter. The floor tom accepted a 15" head, the bass drum and snare were metric. Those factors alone account for poor market success in the U.S.A. I also agree that the 1960's Sonor kits are rarely found here - so rare, in fact, as to be almost nonexistent.

Here is a 1956 kit on German eBay. Hubba, hubba!

http://www.ebay.de/itm/komplettes-Sonor-Schlagzeug-Snare-Trommel-Drum-Tom-Tom-1956-orig-50er-Jahre-/271123154838?pt=Antike_Musikinstrumente&hash=item3f20330796#ht_10987wt_922

Is that $21,000? I cut and pasted the 160,00 into a converter and came up with $21K.....

No, 160€ is close to 210$.

The missing parts will not be impossible to find in Germany. Gerd at STdrums is as always a good place to begin.

Jon

On ebay.de , a coma is used instead of period to separate the monetary units from the fractional units------I guess it helps designate Euros from Dollars. I haven't seen that done elsewhere for Euros. Old Sonor parts are about as rare in Germany as old Leedy parts are in N.A but they do show up. Depending on the version of those claws---I may have some.

The convention in Europe is to use the comma as a decimal place indicator.

Continental Europe use a comma, yes. Like we would with centimetres or kilos.

The brits - always different, drives in the other side of the street than anyone else etc. - use period.

Which probably explains that you in the US do.

Jon