Did you buy them new Jim? Beautiful kit indeed!! I love the setup. Clapping Happy2

I did buy them new in 1993 I think it was. I checked the serials on the drums and they range from 1980 to 1989, so they were 'old' when I got them!

Originally I had two kicks, but I recently sold one as I have not used it in years. With two kicks, I had a different arrangement of the toms (a conventional set up) but I like this 'fusion' arrangement a LOT. I have had it this way for many years now.

They are modeling in the newly (nearly) completed Drumgeon...

Great looking kit. Yamahas are excellent drums. My modern Pearl kit (2005) is set up similarly. 8, 10, 12 ride toms and a 14 ft. I keep a Splash in the middle as well. I like that little China Splash (?) on your HH. Does it sound when you do a foot chic, or only when you hit it? I might get one of those, too.

Thanks for sharing the photo.

Best.

Stephen

Thanks!

The thing on my hi hat is (was?) made by Wuhan in the early 80's or so- it is a very high pitched and piercing bell sound. I use it in one song (Sanctuary [for Melissa]) to add more tension to an already tension-filled song... It's small, but it really cuts! Useful when playing the intro to YYZ as well.

I had it on a inner rod from an old high-hat stand for a long time (the screw broke off in the clutch, so I replaced the rod; however I bent the ruined one into a Z shape and hose clamped it to the side of the old hi hat stand to hold "the ashtray" as we call it)

Then I got 'fancy' and got a respectable cymbal stacker and had it above a splash in front of me for a long time.

I JUST changed it to its current position after seeing someone here with a vintage mount like this. I remembered I had an old clutch kicking around so I turned it over and *presto* a good place for it, and no extra stand...

Oh, and with regards to the splash over my bass, I had a triple clamp on the bass there which also held the splash, but when I hit the bass drum, the splash would rattle a bit- not cool- so I moved it to the stand off the bass... Nice and quiet now!

So I edited the first post so it can go in the gallery.

Not a great picture as I used an extremely wide lens in the tiny Drumgeon so it is distorted, but you get the idea.

I am attaching the orignial pictures in this post...