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| Pro Beat w/ 24" bass drum Ludwig Epic | Destroy1
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1 September 2010
| That's my hand-build piccolo snare drum on the right. I say hand built...it's a 10 ply virgin Keller shell, I drilled for round aircraft aluminum lugs I designed and made when I was building WWII aircraft replicas, Slingerland cast hoops, Ludwig P-80 throw off, butt and snare wires, Remo heads.
I like to keep 2 snare drums handy, not only for differing sounds for songs, but in case I break a head on one...although I haven't broken a drum head in 20 years!
Pic was taken at bassplayers old studio in Portland OR. | | Message posted 526 days ago |  IP Logged |
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| Destroy1
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5 September 2010
| Thanks!
I clipped way down on the amount of cymbals and clamps/rods/ forest of 'tree limbs' with the 6' high double rack 14 cymbal confusion. Now I have extra pieces from the Gibraltar to assemble a second rack for my next kit. I'm looking at the DW's, PDP Platinum, Gretsch, Sonor, Yamaha or Pork Pie. I'm in no rush to decide, but reading myriad posts on here re: drums is helping me be a little more discerning on my decision.
These PDP's are getting good reviews and endorsements in both the Platinum and X-7 configurations. All maple shells.
There's also a custom builder here in Nashville name of DONOHO DRUMS. There are really only two drum shops I deal with here and that's FORKS DRUM CLOSET, and MUSIC WORLD DRUMMER'S DEN. Plenty of great choices and I ALMOST bought a primo set of late 60's Ludwig White Pearl, but the interiors had been repainted in house paint! WHY do people do that to drums?!?
Anyway, Mr. Donoho had a stroke and lost the use of his left arm, so he doesn't make the drums anymore, and even though he's been trying to get his family to continue building them, there have not been any ney developments that I'm aware of. Great drums, and I might buy a kit, have to go play them first of next week along with the pdp's, Yamaha's, and Gretsch's they have sitting on the floor.
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5 September 2010
| FYI: The Ludwig Epics like the red ones you posted and the Natural Black Burst I posted are around the same price as the PDP X7 series but limited to 22" kicks only. The Platinums are a little more coin, but I can get a 24" bass drum with them. I don't think the Ludwigs are maple, but Fork's has both of these kits in stock in these exact colors. I can see them there, but the shop is so crowded, and they have so many other drums already set up, that they can't set the Epic's up for me to play.
I'm not really ready to buy them off EBay without playing them first, but the Ebay deals include hardware for under a grand. Snare stand, Hhat, and two straight and one boom cymbal stands, pedal,and I would work a deal to forget about the Hhat and pedal (I use DW's) and include another couple of cymbal boom stands.
Updated on 9/5/2010 8:30:49 PM WOW, REALLY? DW's would be my first choice if they're not too spendy. Do you have any idea what the line is called?
I saw and played the Yamaha 'Phoenix' kit over at Drummer's Den, but I don't think they're worth 5K plus. | | Message posted 522 days ago | IP Logged |
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| Destroy1
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| | You betcha! I will be on the lookout! Thanks Mike. You have a great Labor Day tomorrow! | | Message posted 522 days ago | IP Logged |
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