This set is absolutely unique ! Those look like CB 700 type Pearl lugs. Pearl set ? ?

Many aspects of this kit are saying one-off/demonstrator.No badges/vent holes.Ten lug bass,eight lug F.T.,swivel bass drum spurs.I can't recall ever seeing any brand of acrylic drum in flourescent colors-So I'll say mid seventies NAMM demonstrator until proven otherwise.

I just saw where that set is located...2 days ago I was travelling across the entire width of Arkansas...now I'm back in Mass.

Definitly Pearl.

Those lugs are Pearl. If you look at the picture that shows the lugs from inside the bass drum, you can see the reinforcements around the screws. The copies or the cheaper "Made by Pearl" lugs didn't have theese. The hex shaped tom holders are the earlier version from Pearl -late 60's, Pearl changed to thicker Hex shaped mounts around 1970. The odd bass drum spur mounts (that I havn't seen used on a bass drum before) are actually the same mounts that were normally used for the floor tom legs. If you look at the legs on the floor tom of this kit, you can see that they are the same. So I have to agree with Teverson-sr. A one-off Pearl kit (allthough I can see vent holes in the pictures) late 60's or maybe very early 70's.

/Johan M

Normally, I am not into Acrylics - but these are different!

And cheap too....for the time being.

But the Pearl Crystalites I had were seamless - and these are not. So are they really Pearl?

Jon

Iam thinking that the set is a home made set with pearl type of lugs.The tom mount is not a mount that pearl would use on their top of the line sets of the 70's.The tom mount you would fine on drums like C.B.700 ete these drums were made by Pearl..I have seen these types of shell in the 90's in colors like you see on this set..So my best guess is home made set with a mix of Pearl hardwear and the shells came from some acrylic shell maker in the U.S.....Mikey

Jon wrote:

"But the Pearl Crystalites I had were seamless - and these are not. So are they really Pearl?"

-Good point, I forgot about that. I was only looking at the hardware, and that is Pearl, apart from the bass drum spurs that at least I haven't seen before.

Mikey777 suggests that they are home made, that is of course also a possible, quite likely, explanation. The Tom mounts however were actually Pearls top of the line mounts in the late 60's. When Pearl went over to the thicker ones (around 1970) the older thin ones started to pop up on their budget drums like "CB-700", "Maxvin by Pearl" and dozens of other brands.

The more I think of it, the more I lean towards Mikey777's explanation.

-In any case, I wouldn't mind having those drums myself. They sure would stand out on any stage :D

/Johan M

I think home-made...it's such a mongrel of pieces!

I saw a set exactly like this at Wagner's Music in Elyria Ohio, circa 1978. The only difference in the kit I saw was that the shells were violet rather than floro lime. (They were the same shade of violet as current Sterling Plastics shells.) The set I saw was also without any maker's mark. They were new, price $650.

I remember this quite clearly because I badly wanted to buy them, but fearing low resale, I was dissuaded by the lack of a name brand.

Correct ID though, they were boilerplate Pearl OEM stencil drums with seamed acrylic shells.

One mistake above, it was Driscoll's Music, not Wagner's. Across the strret and up the block towards town square.