gretsch929: good call on the heads. They did have ludwig heads on them, which is probably where I was remembering seeing "ludwig" on the kit.
harryconway: just wanted to re-iterate that the ebay listing is NOT the actual drum set in question. I'm not in the habit of taking ebay seller descriptions as gospel, which is why after reading that, I went on to post this thread to see if anyone on here knew what the drums were. Seems like we can all agree on what they aren't.
Anybody have any idea of how old the drums are, what they are made of?
The kit is owned by my parents' church. It has sounded like garbage for years, with ludwig heads almost as old as the kit itself as far as I can tell. The bottom rims and tension rods are missing from each of the toms. The bass drum had been literally filled with pillows and was quite dead. A group of teenagers use the kit to practice and perform praise music for the services. My dad wanted me to fix the kit up and get it sounding as good as it could, partially for the kids (he's such a nice guy), partially as a tax write off (he's a smart guy), but mostly because he was sick of listening to those horrible sounding drums (he's a musician).
The two missing tom rims have been purchased, but the tension rods we picked up didn't fit. I threw an aquarian super kick II and a vintage ludwig logo front bass head (oops) onto the bass drum, along with removing all the pillows from it. I put coated aquarian studio x heads on the batter side of the toms. When we get the tension rods figured out, I'm putting classic clears on the bottom side. From what I can tell, the kit isn't going to sound half bad, despite its bastard ancestry.
