jheutmaker
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I have my 1966 Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl kit that my dear parents bought me when I was 11. They are in fantastic shape as I didn't use them that much for shows. I cant see the circumstances in which I would ever part with them.
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Sentimental value of gear!
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SilverSilk
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I cannot bear to part with my 1972 acrolite and my 1973 Ludwig kit (13/14/16/24). My mom who didnt make much at the time took out a $1300 loan to buy it for me. She chose Silver Silk because she thought it would match my outfits the best. LOL, I was a 13 year old girl, and she wasnt wrong! I think it is a rare color only offered for a year or two. Ive never seen another kit like it.
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JBludwig
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I still have my Dad’s 1930’s Walberg and Auge set. He bought it used in the 1950’s and played it for years. He painted it white over the gold sparkle wrap.I found it in the attic as a kid and brought down to my room and set it all up. That’s the set I learned on. When my sister bought the family house 10 years ago she called me and asked if I wanted all the old drums and gear in the attic. I said hell yea! and grabbed it all. I started scraping the old paint off and cleaning up the drums. They’re in pretty decent shape for 90 year old shells. My Dad still plays the W&A wood snare and a newer Pearl set in a jazz band. I guess he doesn’t have a lot of sentimental feelings for these drums. (Probably less than me) but still, I don’t think I’ll get rid of them. At least not any time soon. My son is very interested in music,(trombone player) I’ll pass them down to him along with all my drums and gear.
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Sticks
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I regret selling 1960’s Saturn & 1970’s Aria miJ kits. & Zildjian 13” Hhats that went with Aria’s.
I could write a book to answer this question. I'll try not to.
I get emotionally attached to every drum and cymbal and piece of hardware I own. And when the time is right I'll let it go and not miss it.
I recently told myself that if I woke up tomorrow and everything I owned had been burned up in a fire, how would I cope. The answer was, I'm still a drummer. I would just need to go out and buy the tools needed to be that drummer.
And 5 years ago [anniversary is November 25th!] I learned that "you can't take it with you" when I had three cardiac arrests in one night, while playing at a gig, and was literally dead three times. During that time I didn't own anything...!
Although I would miss my current stash of drum stuff if I sold it all, the two drums I will keep to the end were made for me by my drum building friend Larry Archer, who owns Larry Archer Drums in Aptos, California.
(And there's the short answer to the question!)
Stretch
I get emotionally attached to every drum and cymbal and piece of hardware I own. And when the time is right I'll let it go and not miss it.
I recently told myself that if I woke up tomorrow and everything I owned had been burned up in a fire, how would I cope. The answer was, I'm still a drummer. I would just need to go out and buy the tools needed to be that drummer.
And 5 years ago [anniversary is November 25th!] I learned that "you can't take it with you" when I had three cardiac arrests in one night, while playing at a gig, and was literally dead three times. During that time I didn't own anything...!
Although I would miss my current stash of drum stuff if I sold it all, the two drums I will keep to the end were made for me by my drum building friend Larry Archer, who owns Larry Archer Drums in Aptos, California.
(And there's the short answer to the question!)
Stretch
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DBT
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I’m still sad about selling my 72’ SSB’s . My first kit starting at almost 6 years old . Stopped playing them around 84’ and cased them up . Didn’t see the light of day till I sold them last year . They needed a new home and to be played . Don’t regret it but sad . What I do regret is selling a 19 3/4” Type 3 Trans Stamp last year . Other then that I will never sell my collection of Hollow Logos .
My 1979 Slingerland kit which was my first purchase for a kit.
Won’t be sold.
My Dw 1999, collector kit I had custom made new.
Also will never be sold.
I regret selling my Signia maple kit.
I still have that snare.
Won’t be sold.
My Dw 1999, collector kit I had custom made new.
Also will never be sold.
I regret selling my Signia maple kit.
I still have that snare.
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Jazzhead
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What is the significance of the Rogers kit?
NSMDjohn
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I've got a 20" Radio King WMP floor tom that I got from the estate of Barrett Deems. I knew Barrett and visited with him
and talked about his drums many times at the Chicago Drum Show. He told me this drum was given to him by Gene Krupa,
and he used it as a lampstand in his house. It still has the original calfskin heads and sounds great, although I rarely play it.
When Barrett passed away, his drums were sold by his widow at the Chicago show, which was where I purchased it.
I also have a drum that Johnny Craviotto made, that is the best sounding wood drum I've ever had the pleasure to own.
Before the limited edition Lake Superior drums went into production, Johnny made a few samples to see what they'd sound
like. He entered the first 4x14 in the Snare Drum Olympics, a contest I ran back in the late 90s as part of the Southern Custom
and Vintage drum show, and I fell in love with it. I tried to purchase it from him at the time, but he wasn't selling. This drum won
the SDO and was a favorite of everyone who played it, but DW had the second place drum that year, and Johnny had just started
working with them to produce his own branded line of snares through DW. Johnny pulled this drum from the official results to keep from
getting on the bad side of DW. About a month after the show, the shell arrived back in my office, with the lugs, strainer, and butt plate.
When I called him about it, he said it was a gift, but he figured I'd rather engrave my own brass hoops for it (he was right). I have a
lot of snare drums, limited editions that I engraved for other companies, Anniversary models, etc. but to this day, that drum is tied
with the next drum for my all time favorite.
The last of my never sell drums is a 1923 Ludwig Deluxe (Black Beauty) which is also a 4x14. As some of you may be aware, I was
pretty much a black beauty junkie for many years. I owned an insane number of them as I bought and sold through the years, but
this one drum stuck out from all the rest as the sound that my ears were looking for. It has the standard #338 Strainer, and is pretty
worn after me lugging it around for the last 30 years, and except for the heads, snares, and a few replacement collar hooks, is all original.
When the good lord thought of the ideal metal snare drum, this was the one he was thinking of. It is currently the only vintage Ludwig
Black Beauty that I own. I'm glad one of my sons likes drums enough that I can safely say these three will stay in the family for a while.
kissingonstilts
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What I think the original post is referencing is the role sentimentality plays in one's life - where, why, and to what degree. Certain situations and circumstances impact one's decisions around material objects and the role/function they play in one's life. As has been noted here, objects are memory cues for things/times/places/people we attach meaning to, which is fine - it's human. My own experience is that I can be 'attached' to a material object (for a variety of reasons, some even divergent), and simultaneously be sad when it's gone and grateful that I let it go because its absence truly served the whole of my life more aptly. With any material thing, it's all on 'loan' and goes somewhere else when we no longer inhabit the planet - only the 'terms' of its presence in our lives differ - I own it, I rent it, I'm borrowing it, I've stolen it (just kidding!). The real question is, "What is the most life-enhancing behaviour here - what action is the most confluent with my worldviews and circumstance?" You'll know you've made the 'right' decision when it brings you some peace. And if you make a 'mistake'? So what. You will likely have deeper disappointments in life.
1973 Rogers Dyna-Sonic 12x15 Gold Metallic Flake Field Snare #1
I was assigned this Snare Drum my first year of High School and played it all four years from 1975-1979, I tried to purchase from our school my Senior year, but they told me it Was Government Inventory and could not be sold.
I returned to the school 15 years later and they had upgraded to the Yamaha SFZ 9214's, when I asked the Band Director about the old equipment he said "You can have it, it's all broken and we never use it"
I said NO I'll buy it from you, because I'll need a receipt, he said No problem..
I purchased the entire set (5) Rogers Dyna-Sonic Field Snares (5) Rogers Dyna-Sonic Tenor Drums (2) Rogers Scotch Basses and (3) sets of Slingerland Tenor Drums, but Snare#1 was the one that's close to my heart
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robbiemurray
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I gave up playing almost 30 years ago, and held on to my cherished Gretsch Progressive Jazz kit, bought new from Mannys in 1971, up until 2013, when I realised it would never be used by me again, but held on to my cymbals - 20" Ride; 18" Crash/Ride; 16" Crash; 8" Splash, all Avedis, and my beautiful 13" Paiste Formula 602 Hi-Hats, which I can't bear to let go ... I also have sticks going back to the 1970s, and a pair of Ludwig heavy Ridged Red Rubber brushes which I think were discontinued many years ago. Having done a fair amount of pit work, I have an accumulation of odd traps, including a football rattle (see attached) which, when turned slowly was perfect for the 'un-rusting' of the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz, and in my traps case, which I still have, is a selection of latin scrapers, shakers and things to hit plus a wonderful Latin Percussion cowbell, all of which keep my grandchildren amused for hours ....
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RCDCllc
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How attached are you to the DW,s? I have someone looking at mine and I'm up in the air if I want to let it go yet. Mine are 22,8,10,12,14f.t.
Elmo
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jheutmaker - your post really resonated with me!
I had a 1966 Ludwig psychadelic kit that my dear parents bought me when I was 11. They weren't in very good shape as I gigged a lot with them and (not knowing any better) replaced some of the original hardware with something more durable. For a long time I couldn't see the circumstances in which I would ever part with them, but then I did. They were just taking up space in my closet, so I sold them to collectors that would value them more than me, and used the money to buy three used starter kits, which I donated to a charity which found a home for them.
I'm not saying you should do that, as everyone's situation is different, but I thought it was really cool that our situations were so similar.
I miss them, and miss my parents too, but life goes on. (but when it doesn't for me any longer, no one else will have have to deal with those drums.) (Although they'll have four other kits to worry about.)
Absolutely and no I don't think it's silly at all. I've had several pieces of gear I wished I kept: Ludwig Slotted Colliseum snare drum, 1979ish Blue Ludiwg Vistalite (my first kit), Sonor Phonic (my first Sonor kit) and my last Sonor kit a Sonor Delite only because it was my endorsement kit when I was with Sonor. I'm playing Gretsch now but wished I had stayed with Sonor. So, yes it does make a difference how it feels to you when you sit behind a kit. Thanks for posting that question.
Lamontsdad
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My first real kit! I bought it from the dad of a girl I was crushing on HEAVILY.
notINtheband
DFO Veteran
Oddly I had no attachment to the first kit I ever owned, which I got new, had for 20 years and sold without hesitation, a 70’s Pearl Wood/Fiberglass kit.
Yet I have a sentimental attachment to my favorite Wraith Brass snare, as well as my Copeland signature snare (#258), and a OCPD 25-ply snare I toured with for 3 years and don’t play anymore.
None of these drums have exceptional value, and yet I can’t imagine selling them.
Oh, and one more,
Just because it ended up in some photos with my youngest granddaughter we keep recreating as she grows up;
Yet I have a sentimental attachment to my favorite Wraith Brass snare, as well as my Copeland signature snare (#258), and a OCPD 25-ply snare I toured with for 3 years and don’t play anymore.
None of these drums have exceptional value, and yet I can’t imagine selling them.
Oh, and one more,
Just because it ended up in some photos with my youngest granddaughter we keep recreating as she grows up;
Dzdrum
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I am 63 right now and have a lot of drums, cymbals and percussion stuff. While I do buy and sell a lot of it, there is a core group of snares and my DW kit that I bought from Steve Bowman(Counting Crows original drummer) that I will not sell. I am hoping that in the next 10 years, a grandchild of mine might get into drumming. I will pass down all my gear. If not, then if I can’t play due to some health issue in the future - I am selling everything!
Not silly, I have my snare drum I'm in love with, Ludwig supersonic, 6x14
