Sounds like a good plan.

That’s a cool kit.

One of the drum stores around here had a leery bass drum- I think it was an 18”. What I know is that it was a total bowel-shaker. Seriously serious bass drum. It was used for bass pedal demos and they didn’t have the rest of the kit. Killer.

Beautiful set that speaks so well of the entire vintage drum mystique. That wide open black diamond pearl pattern and the name Leedy with so much historical depth. What can be said, but wow!

I was very fortunate to acquire a second Shelly Manne snare drum a few years after acquiring the BDP snare with the rest of the drum set. These snare drums are everything that other brands of snare drums wish they could be (except, of course, for Slingerland).

I feel like cutting back on my collection, too....But, as long as I'm alive, I want to know that anything I put out there, ends up in the possession of someone who won't just flip it for a few quick bucks...Or, someone who is as old (or older) than myself and will end up passing the stuff on to some unknown entity. After I'm dead, it won't bother me a bit what happens, of course.

:Santa: will bring me a new old kit

I have my first kit from 68 only , right now

And it’s still has original heads

Does that say anything

So I’m thinking 1 is very lonely I have to have a downbeat

At 70 I still don’t get it I’ll never learn

I have to admit I never understood the complication of the snare straining arrangement on those drums, particularly the aluminum piece that extends over the tube on the lower portion of the strainer. It always seemed like a structurally weak piece that was vulnerable to damage. I had the same thing on the red satin flame snare that I added to the red satin flame kit that was once yours (before I too, regretfully, sold it). It's the only snare like it I ever owned and didn't own it long enough to research how it was supposed to be used.

I had a similar reaction to the one and only Ludwig Super Classic I owned.

The interesting thing is you hear a lot of negative comments about the Dynasonic snare arrangements, and yet it is compartitively more straightforward to set up in my view.

Jim Petty taught me that this snare arrangement is installed on the drum . Then it's a simple matter to set it and forget it except for occasional fine-tuning tweaks with the snares already in place. I'll state once again that, although I was a manufacturer's rep for Rogers in the hey day of the Dynasonic snare drum, I never warmed up to the (seemingly) ten pounds of complicated hardware on the underside of the drum. My first Rogers snare drum was a 1961 Holiday BDP 5x14 that mounted to the bass drum with a Swivomatic arm. I am also fond of the Simple-yet-elegant six-lugger Luxor snare drum.

Great set. I have a couple myself. LOVE them.

The Shelly Manne snares are excellent as well.

Do you still have the pink snare?