[FONT="Arial"]Hello to all of you,

couldn´t find the introducions forum after searching for hours, so I thought I´d post here.

My name is Jürgen, I´m living in the Southwest of Germany, playin´drums for over 25 years now. And I want to apologize for my (maybe) strange English:).

The reason why I became a member of this community is:

Since last summer I´m the proud owner of (so I found out in this forum this week) a Star Bollero Drumset in "Fantasia" finish.

You might not believe this, but I pulled it out of a trash container (!) by climbing in and trying to save all the parts of the drum set that I could get.

Found the BassDrum, the Floortom, the 12" Tom, the SnareDrum and some parts of a hardware set. The 13" Tom unfortunately was taken away by somebody else already, all I have is one hoop and the resonance batter with the "Bollero" sign on it. Both the other TomToms had no lower batters mounted, but I was lucky to find both hoops and the original batter of the 12".

In this condition I stored it packed away carefully in a big box and almost forgot about it.

Last week we had a gig in a very small club with not enough space for my usual setup (six- or seven-piece set sometimes), so I remembered the Bollero and took it on stage for the first time- I even didn´t check it out before. Just changed both batters of the BassDrum (they were totally destroyed) in the afternoon before headin´off to the gig and had to play without the resonance batters on the two TomToms - just had no time to get it fixed.

The Snare is also pretty f***ed up, so I took my 70´s Ludwig 5" snare.

After we had finished playing my guitarist said, "Damn´, what a GREAT set! The BassDrum is killer!! The other drumsets you´ve been playing all the time really are ,high-tech-rubbish´ in comparison with this one! THIS is Rock´n´Roll!"

And I must say, I agreed and decided to further play the Bollero with this band. It´s a trio that plays Blues-Rock of the 60´s and 70´s, and the "Fantasia"-Finish matches our music perfectly!

This was the moment when I began the restauration of the DrumSet. First I had to repair the bearing edges of the lower side of the TomToms that had been (ab)used as RockToms with all the traces of the years.

Next step is the SnareDrum, it´s straining mechanism is almost damaged. Hope that I get it fixed - and if I fail, to get a similar part for it.

On the picture below you can see the set on stage last week, I´ll post more pics of the finished Setup when all the work is done - hopefully soon.

By the way, does anybody know if Star provided a 14" Floortom for this Kit?

So keep on rockin´!

Greets Jürgen[/FONT]