As stated by Robson Roncon (grandson of Pedro) “…Pinguim drums were praised by the Ludwig Company in an american magazine for being the only drums in the world that had the same quality standards as Ludwig and Bud Slingerland said?
And what did Mr. Link say about Ludwigs comment ??
and what capitain nascimento said about? WTF? this **** is awesome, just look at it...Lame
and to give Tmyer2 a proper answer to the original question...YES this isa ONE OF A KIND KIT, both in terms of visuals, tradition, history and SOUND ( very unique character! band2 rocking kit bro! KEEP IT! or sell me it
A kit like that , fully restored would be worth probably 1300 dllars depending on the set uo and measures ( if u already posted i did not read it) Car Driving2
I often wonder how many kits of various out of production brands were made. I realize that Pinguim, is still making snare drums, as stated but they must have made quite a few kits and a lot of those must be knocking around South America, right now. ------but my real question is; where do all the drums go? I can't believe they all have been dismantled-----there must be a pile of vintage drums scattered all over the place----in garages,closets,attics, back rooms. I once walked in to a fairly good sized music shop---not a specialty drum shop but they had a pretty good drum dept., in a suburb of Toronto and asked if they had any Trixon stuff. Yes, they had a 1956 red sparkle kit, with the original calf heads, ride cymbal and stand in the back room(they didn't know it was from 1956---it was just this odd drum kit). They used to bang away on it back there until someone broke the batter head on the tenor tom because they were collectively clueless about tuning calf heads.----anyway , it came down to "how much will you give us for it"? I think the kit had been there for years-----there must be a lot of stuff sitting idle ,in a lot of places. Trixon had something like 700 employees when they stopped production, so they were kicking out a lot of drums and you don't see very many Trixon drums on the market. Presumably, Pinguim exported to other S.A. countries----so I would think there are a few of these around.
This is a very famous model, called Pinguim "Gota" (drop, in Portuguese, as the lugs have a raindrop format). Fully restored, they're worth about R$3000,00 in Brazil. Here's a part of the one I have (being restored):
Lindassa Thiago!!!Cool1
Valeu, Daniel!
You can see full pictures of my kits here:
Those current Penguim lugs on their snares look almost identical to classic Ludwig. No?
