1. Yes

2 Nope, it is all over the place.

3. Hard to tell with the dark color, but it does change.

4. Trying to match all of the drums will be a challenge.

5. I have a snare as pictured. Most of the parts are long gone! Actually they went back to the original drum they came from. So I have a 3-ply Radio King in that finish missing the parts!

I had your dream once.......

David

Jaye has one he pieced together...finally...and it is SWEET!

I've always like the capri wrap, too. It reminds me of Roger's Mardi Gras.

Due to the rarity and high price of the mardi gras color, I'm slowly gathering

information on reproducing this pattern, using confetti found at local party

stores. I'm not going to try to sell this completed project to anyone, but

rather challanging myself to see if I can do this. I agree that it's going to

be hard to find "matching" patterns of the capri wrap out there, especially

given the era of this color. Good luck, though!!

I just noticed that an 8x12 Capri Pearl rack tom just sold on e-Bay for $185.

The 22 inch bass drum in a Capri Pearl wrap being offered by the same seller with a starting price of $150 didn't draw any interest. Any ideas why?Hmmmm

I had a capri set once, missing the floor toms. It took a while, but over time I found a few floor toms. Only one of them matched perfectly.

I've seen other solo floor toms since.

I think it would be better finding a complete set, or at least a set missing the snare, and then getting the matching snare.

The wrap tends to split over time, so check carefully when you find them.

It IS a totally cool finish. The mardi gras and fiesta will be harder to find.

I've attached three pics of the Capri snare I currently own. The final two pics are of the Capri bass drum that I'm considering.

Based on the comments I've received (THANK YOU everybody!), I think that my chances of finding an affordable complete kit in this wrap would be slim and none. However, since the bass drum I'm looking at has non-original black lacquer hoops installed, I was thinking of putting together a kit that would consist of my current Capri snare, the Capri bass drum shown in the last two pics and two vintage Slingerland toms wrapped in a solid gloss black finish to match the hoops on the bass drum.

How closely the Capri Pearl wrap on my snare matches that on the bass drum is questionable without seeing them together "up close and personal". From my pics the "white flecks" on it appear much larger than those on the bass drum. The listing for the bass drum stated that it has "more gold threads" than most. However, I honestly don't know if it would make that much of a difference anyway since these two pieces sit perpendicular to eachother when the kit's set up for playing.

Any thoughts (positive or negative) on how a kit consisting of the two pieces shown in the pics and two vintage Slingerland toms in a Solid Gloss Black finish might look would be GREATLY appreciated. I promised the owner of the Capri bass drum that I'd provide an ansewer today as to whether I'd be purchasing it or not so feel free to provide any and all "words of wisdom".

THANKS!Help2

there is a capri snare drum on ebay right now ends today 1/31/10 it is at $427.00 right now!!!! item #380201231668

THANKS for the "heads up"!