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Champion Kick - What Is This?
Appears to be of vintage American manufacture and resembles the "Revere" brand drums. The Japanese mounted tom holder is obviously a retro installatio...
1 week agoJohn Grey Orchestral snare drum questions
A real treasure you have there! It should clean up relatively easy. [I call 40 hrs. of tedious, intricate, cleaning, polishing, and mechanical f...
1 week agoIdentifying/ value info for vintage bass drum
I am no authority on old Duplex drums, but it looks like a Duplex Spirit of St. Louis model drum. As to value it has both antique value and drum colle...
6 months agoTrixon / Vox drums - a little info and clarification please
It is my opinion that the Vox production line marketed in the USA by The Thomas Organ Co. to target the newly hip young buyers influenced by English p...
7 months agoIdentify cymbal L-arm
Member kdg is correct. Old Leedy and perhaps other brands' catalogs often showed trap assemblies with arms that attached like these.
7 months agoTrixon / Vox drums - a little info and clarification please
This should get you started and keep you busy for a long time. www.trixondrums.de
7 months agoMystery Cymbal Stand-Can You Help ID?
Resembles the line of hardware once marketed as "Hohner". Definitely a Zildjian Cymbal Snap on top.
7 months agoBD tone control
In my experience a standard Rogers tone control used in toms and snares would prove to be inefficient in providing enough muffling on your bass drums....
3 years agoSonor Teardrop Vintage Snare Drum-specific heads ?
Sonor fitted that line of production with early Evans plastic heads with plastic counter hoops and a virtually non-existent 'shoulder' commonly found...
3 years agoSonor Teardrop Snare Hoops?
Your problem is not unique, but rather a 'feature' of that vintage line of Sonor snare drums. Frustrating, to say the least. I have in the past done a...
3 years agoSnares on a C17th military drum
The few antique rope tension drums I have experience with utilized long strips of twisted rawhide strands extending across the bottom head for snares....
3 years agoSonor Screw
Vintage teardrop lugs of that vintage did not have screws that fastened into the lug from the interior of the shell. The lugs were cast in one piece w...
3 years agoTrying to Identify "swing" Snare
Could be wrong but my guess is vintage Giannini from Switzerland.
3 years agoVelcro adhesive inside a 3-ply maple Ludwig ?
It won't affect your inner shell in any meaningful way. I say do it and don't worry about it.
3 years agoNew Dynomatic Tom Arm
That thing is hideous! Would never put something that looks like that on a vintage Rogers kit. Like almost all "modern" hardware it's just more stampe...
5 years ago