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In what year did you buy your first Turkish K?

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I bought mine,a 20" NOS Ride for $80 (!) from Middletons Music on Plainfield Avenue in Grand Rapids,Michigan in around 1977....still in the factory plastic K bag!

They also had a 22" NOS,but I thought it was too big.........I was only around 20 at the time. That was probably $90 new!

I bought my very first A.Zil there....a used 12" Splash in around 1968-69....I recall paying $12 for it! Wish I still had it.........

They were Gretsch dealers,and in around 1968, they even had a stock Avante Garde double bass kit in the store in Champagne Sparkle ,just like in the catalog.

I remember tapping lightly on the front head of 1 of the BD's with my fingers,and it being pretty resonant sounding to my 12 year old brain....

Try to find a factory kit like that now! Nigh on impossible!

Blair

"Always make sure your front bottom BD lugs clear the ground!"
Posted on 13 years ago
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1977...

24" New Stamp out of Creative music... Bob Gatzens place in Ct...

It's a killer cymbal that I still have..2950gm..

Posted on 13 years ago
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2010.

50s 16" marching cymbal. Later I found out it had a small crack. I sold it with considerable profit (of course I mentioned the crack before selling) and have no Ks to this day. But I have some Istanbul Mehmets and am pretty happy with 'em.

Sysl krysu nenahradi!

-196?-72 6ply White Oyster Amati
-1960s 3ply Red Sparkle Amati
- Zildjian, Paiste, Zyn, Istanbul

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Posted on 13 years ago
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From EDL

1977...24" New Stamp out of Creative music... Bob Gatzens place in Ct...It's a killer cymbal that I still have..2950gm..

How much was it?

"Always make sure your front bottom BD lugs clear the ground!"
Posted on 13 years ago
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From EDL

1977...24" New Stamp out of Creative music... Bob Gatzens place in Ct...It's a killer cymbal that I still have..2950gm..

Wow, that must be good one if you've kept it all those years.

That's a nice weight on that too. It hard to find them that thin.

Mine's prety close in weight:

[img]http://photos.imageevent.com/drumaholic/cymbalexamples/large/P1070139.jpg[/img]

2832 grams

Posted on 13 years ago
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what year did you buy your first Turkish K?

I first got mine in '89.

And I let it go in double '00. (pronounced double "OH",dig?)

Posted on 13 years ago
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Got my first one.........wait......THREE last fall.They all came on an old APPOLO kit I got for $150.

Posted on 13 years ago
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1984, 19" for $15.

We were both dumb 22-year-olds who thought of it as just another cymbal. He hated it as a rock ride and I thought it would make a nice third crash and secondary ride (it did).

He felt bad for cracking one of my cymbals—the sweetest 16" A Zildjian thin crash we'd ever heard—when he borrowed it for basketball pep band during high school. So he didn't charge me much, although $15 was a fair amount of money at that point in our lives, more for him than for me.

Needless to say, I no longer use it as a rock crash. It comes out for blues gigs when I know that no other drummer will be sitting in.

9x Slingerland New Rock 50N 12-13-16-22 with 170 (Super S-O-M) holder
• 1979 Oak
• 1978 Blakrome + 6.5x14 TDR SD
• 1977 Black Diamond Pearl + 5x14 SD (gold badge, Rapid strainer)
• 1976 Black Cordova
• 1975 Silver Sparkle + 5x14 SD (Rapid strainer)
• 1974 Chrome + 5x14 COB TDR and 6.5x14 COW Zoomatic SDs
• 1973 Purple Sparkle
• 1973 Phantom (clear)
• 1971 Walnut (gold badges) + 5x14 TDR SD
1x Rogers Powertone Londoner V 12-13-16-22
• 1972 Butcher Block + 1979 big R Dynasonic SD
Posted on 13 years ago
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Probably late 90's..

Bill--I'd love to hear a sound file of that beauty 24"

Posted on 13 years ago
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Bill--I'd love to hear a sound file of that beauty 24

I just happen to have right here:

[color=black][font=times new roman][size=+1]24" Intermediate stamp[/size][/font][/color]

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