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Better pics would be helpful - particularly the badge. I'm unsure whether those are script logo Ludwig or perhaps WFL (both used...

Not sure what you mean by "this style of drumming is not cool with young people", for she uses a lot of the phrasing that one hears on...

A couple of things on the bass drum jump out at me that concerning the originality and condition of your kit. The claws are not Ludwig...

Punctuation saves lives.

There is no good way out of this, but I have a couple of ways of dealing with it. It's way harder to slow down a song than it is to...

You have what appears to be a mix of old Slingerland and Ludwig school orchestra and/or marching drums, perhaps made sometime between...

When I did a Google Image search of the photo of the BB they list, what looks like a legit listing comes up, but the web listing is 404.

Here’s my .02 on the comments thus far: Re: MAP. Introduced by instrument manufacturers to “level the playing field” between small...

The weirdest thing about this whole thread? VB and I agree on something. I'm not saying that's entirely strange ... but my toaster is...

Methinks the “death or rock and roll” has more to do with the current state of the recording industry than with changes in the tastes of...

At $150 it's a steal. And speaking of "steel", the snare is likely one of the steel shell models. I believe the brass versions had...

Once had one of these. Nice drums but the throw arm is prone to cracking.

Was just about to say the same thing. These are likely from the early eighties. I think the Recording Customs (which were derived from...

You owe it to them to let them know what those drums would have been worth before they made porch furniture out of that kit. Oh, the...

I think the design is great. Is this something that can stand without glue (i.e., capable of being disassembled)?