Sounds better when it's free. :)

This just reminded me of a guy I know who found a set of drums in a skip being chucked out. He brought them home and gave me a call and whatever way he said it it sounded like he was offering them to me for free. Hey I found a drum kit and thought of you, wanna come out and have a look? Something like that. so I go all the way over there and tell him it's a Pearl Export and it's in rough shape, not worth a lot of cash. I would have still taken them, but he never even offered them to me for free which is the only reason I went there in the first place. That's what you call a lousy friend. :D

Hoshino would be my vote as well

Ha ha! The rotten swine...DOH

The floor tom leg mounts are hoshino.

A free drum that's playable is always a good drum. As far as ID goes, I think the rest of the guys have nailed it with Hoshino. I'd say keep it as a player, good sounding drums as long as the bearing edges are in good condition.

Thanks for all the input, Gentlemen. It's a nice looking drum, and I like the wrap. Might clean it up and take it for a test drive. Need another FT mount though... And yes, free is always good! Cheers!

Big week for finding FT's in Sydney town.. scored a Yammy earlier in the week...

According to Ralf this should be a Star brand... as are all with the "Worlds Supreme Quality" motto...

Cheers

John

http://www.star-drums.de/html/other_brands___badges.html

Yeah, I saw that. I think you won though, that's a very nice drum. Good score!

The metal oval badge Tempo drums were Star

Pearl had drum kits badged as both Tempo and Tempro

although the former was seldom seen compared to the latter

my best guess would be Pearl changed the Tempo at some point to Tempro perhaps to avoid a conflict with Star

later once the thin foil sticker type badges showed up

Star was pretty much out of the stencil kit market

a market that was still very active leaving only Pearl and Hoshino

It was the musical instrument distributors

who went to both of the remaining two companies to build the kits

and apply the badge labels formerly used by Star

accordingly to fulfill some continued demand by the music retailers

One example is Stewart a popular and well known Star stencil

metal oval shaped badge with World's Supreme Quality motto

Once Star vacated the market the Stewart kits were then supplied by Pearl

the oval badge though similar at a glance ,was now just a foil sticker

And the World's Supreme Quality motto was dropped

In the case of R.Adam McHugh's sweet curbside find

it is a Hoshino made drum with a foil re-pop "Star version" Tempo badge