Dixie was a low end, student model...I'm pretty sure they're imports from the '60s...not really collected. I've seen a few that had 14 x 18" bass drums with center lugs.

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Right, Dixie was one of the many OEM brand names made by Pearl in the 60s - 70s. Pearl pretty much "modeled" many of their designs after Slingerland at the time, so many similarities.

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My first drum set was a Dixie. I bought it at Drummers Paradise in Buffalo, NY. This was a retail outlet of the Kent Drum Company. At the time Kent was buying shells from Royal drum company of Japan. I believe Royal was Pearl. The Dixie drum set that I had was an beginner kit. I got it around 1970. It was 3 pc (sn.,tom, bass) silver sparkle and it had a Dixie logo on the bass drum.

I snagged this off of ebay last month. I thought Dixie was japanese.

Hi all. I just purchased a Dixie drum set tonight. It's a beautiful marine pearl. 20", 12", 14". Infact, it still looks brand new. I still can't get over as to the condition that it's in. Not a rust stain anywhere.

The Dixie logo does look a lot different than the one I saw on this thread.

Pictures to come.

Hey Poppy - I gotta ask - how is your Dixie snare? Didja have to do much to it? Any particulars?

I actually seen a silver sparkle 16" dixie bass drum at an old music store. I remember seeing a brand new old stock Dixie blue sparkle tom as well. This was about 7 years ago.

"Real"branded Pearl drums used these lugs for a relatively short period of time.I bought some Dixie mounted toms(same color) to augment my Kent BDP's,probably 72-73.Luan w/o rerings.This seems to be the second type of badge-there is an earlier oval Dixie badge,also like the earlier oval Pearl badge.The Pearl history website shows drums with this style lug-maybe Revelle?

Don`t listen to `em when people say "low end"- I`m 100% sure that some nice heads and good tuning will make some vintage Dixie drums sound just fantastic. A little love all around them, maybe a little bearing edge attention if they need it. If you are buying, because they are a stencil brand you should get them cheap- but that should automatically mean they`ll sound cheap. I`ve seen some really beautiful Dixie drums that sounded top line. Fiberskyn 3 FAs top and bottom on the toms, a nice Evans EQ3 or EMAD on the bass drum, Remo Emperor coated on the snare- tune them up and you're in business.