dkerwood
10-14-2008, 08:47 PM
Over the weekend I finally found a buyer for my first drumset. My grandparents bought it at a garage sale and then took it to the music store to have them fix it up for me. They gave it to me in 7th grade as a birthday present.
14 years later, I find myself selling it to a beaming 6th grader, super excited to own HIS first kit. There's a little twinge of sadness... but it's quickly eliminated as I sit behind my new GMS kit.
Anyway, I tricked out the package with a bunch of stuff that I didn't want/need from my GMS package- some beat up B8Pro hats, a cracked HHX Manhattan, and a cracked Zildjian China Low cymbal. I also threw in some older Luddie hardware- hatstand, and 2 cymbal stands. I gave him my parts Yamaha pedal (I'd picked it up for parts years ago, but ended up rebuilding it- it still never worked as well as the first one I own), and a couple of snare stands for the snare and the tom to round it out. I gave him a stickbag and a couple pairs of cheap sticks, as well as my old cymbal bag and some old aux percussion junk that's been cluttering up my practice room...
Hopefully he sticks with it. I'd hate the thought of that kit cluttering up anybody's closet besides mine. Here's some pics to remember her by:
A shot of her in 2004, before I rebuilt her:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/343919.jpg?0
My band's drummer playing her when he couldn't get his kit up to a long-distance gig:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514624.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514638.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514626.jpg?0
...and finally, how it was when I sold it:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/2039938.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/2039939.jpg?0
It's funny- I bought a big Ludwig kit to replace this one, but ended up going back to this one and leaving the Luddie set up in the practice room. Sigh... Hopefully it will bring this young man as much joy as it brought me.
14 years later, I find myself selling it to a beaming 6th grader, super excited to own HIS first kit. There's a little twinge of sadness... but it's quickly eliminated as I sit behind my new GMS kit.
Anyway, I tricked out the package with a bunch of stuff that I didn't want/need from my GMS package- some beat up B8Pro hats, a cracked HHX Manhattan, and a cracked Zildjian China Low cymbal. I also threw in some older Luddie hardware- hatstand, and 2 cymbal stands. I gave him my parts Yamaha pedal (I'd picked it up for parts years ago, but ended up rebuilding it- it still never worked as well as the first one I own), and a couple of snare stands for the snare and the tom to round it out. I gave him a stickbag and a couple pairs of cheap sticks, as well as my old cymbal bag and some old aux percussion junk that's been cluttering up my practice room...
Hopefully he sticks with it. I'd hate the thought of that kit cluttering up anybody's closet besides mine. Here's some pics to remember her by:
A shot of her in 2004, before I rebuilt her:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/343919.jpg?0
My band's drummer playing her when he couldn't get his kit up to a long-distance gig:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514624.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514638.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/514626.jpg?0
...and finally, how it was when I sold it:
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/2039938.jpg?0
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/leavethursday/images/photos/gallery/2039939.jpg?0
It's funny- I bought a big Ludwig kit to replace this one, but ended up going back to this one and leaving the Luddie set up in the practice room. Sigh... Hopefully it will bring this young man as much joy as it brought me.