Well...kind of.
I have owned a red sparkle Dowbeat snare for 25 years. I was gifted a 12 X 18 red sparkle bass drum (complete with railmount and disappearing spike spurs) a few years ago. Less than a week after I got that gift, an all-matched red sparkle Downbeat shellpack came up for auction. The serial numbers were in line with the 12 X 18 bass drum, so I bid on it and won. All the numbers are in line -with the exception of the pre-existing snare drum, which is about a year older (1966) according to the badge numbering chart.
I have the option to take the tom tom and the floor tom and mix/match them with the two bass drums. In one instance, I have a complete Downbeat kit -WITH the Downbeat snare drum. In the other instance, I have a Jazzette. But, since I have the Downbeatsnare, I tend to set it up as a complete Downbeat kit as opposed to the option for a Jazzette
The other red sparkle Jazzette is a completely legit one right down to the hardware package -EVERYTHING is matched -including the Supra -all keystone badges from early 1969. It's one of only two complete (with snare drum) matched Jazzette kits I have ever seen. The other one is the black Cortex one listed in the Jazzette section of the Vintage Drum Guide It came with a matching chrome Jazz Combo snare drum and was purportedly, made for Roy Haynes, but was never picked up for some unknown reason. That's the story, anyway. And that kit did not have the matching hardware package.
They are indeed, VERY VERY rare drum sets to find as complete.
But to think that only eight have been photographed and somehow documented is quite amazing to me.
Where are they all, if none of us "drum geeks" haven't found them by now?
