Bump Giving it another try.

Based upon the style of badge, I'd say early-to-mid 80s. That drum actually isn't a bad drum, but my experience with them is that IF you get $75 out of it you'll be doing good.

I deal mostly with the 70s era Pearl, and they didn't have serial numbers so I've never seriously concerned myself about the 80s serial numbers. Shoot, I'm not even aware of a reliable chart on those numbers.

The Pearl Jupiter SDs of the 70s (with a parallel throw-off) were EXCELLENT sounding drums, but NEVER command the money of Ludwig Supraphonics or Super-Sensitives. Same with yours.

Hope that all made sense...

Bill

Yes it did. Thanks!

I think it sounds great and man is it LOUD!!! This was a freebee from a guy I bought some other drum stuff from off CL. I have only played Ludwigs prior to getting this one.

I thought it was weird that it has no muffler on it, is that typical of Pearls?

I've only handled a couple of these. The Jupiters (which I have and use a 6.5x14, new in 1978) had internal tone controls, basically the same ones available new now. Yours looks to have a better throw-off than the ones I had.

Loud, yes. Do you have a Supra? If so, how does this compare side-by-side?

Good. It's good that Bill got to this first.

My reply would have been to chat it up for a bit then ask it out for dinner and a movie...

Well... dinner and a movie could easily cost $75 anymore, huh?

:)

Anyway, I've chatted with my drums a LOT down through the years. Luckily for me though, they usually don't chat back...

Dating Pearl snares can be costly. I usually wait till the around the 5th date before i splurge on themKiss

Laughing H

HA! Lucky for me, when my wife and I were dating, her idea of a fun evening was to order in (Italian or Chinese) and rent a video.