Show us your tiny kits

[Music is Awesome]

Hailukah, that has to be one of the most inventive things I have ever seen or heard of. Love it.

[hailukah]

Thank y'all for the compliments.

[Masheanhed]

This is my "haul down a narrow flight of steep stairs to a room so small you have to go outside to change your mind" practice set up. It is a Sonor Froce 2001 with a 14"dia X 16" length floor tom/bass drum. I am going to get a 12" snare to go with it. Not something I'd use to gig out but for practicing in the guitar player's "dungeon o' practice" it works pretty well.

[jodgey4]

Friend has - hats, ride, bass, floor, snare. It's perfect!

[MLdrum]

I once played a song (for some local internet-TV-stuff) with only a snare on the side and the floor as my bassdrum. I looked kinda like a monkey because of the hoody and my beard, and the way I sit. They (gitarist&vocalist) were was asked to play on a one day notice, and the 3 of us had never played together as a group. But still they wanted me to play, and this is how it turned out :p

http://www.fvn.no/rettpanett/rettpan...icle740934.ece

[Billy Brown]

Originally Posted by caddywumpus

She is an absolute beauty! I didn't do the conversion on the bass drum, though...I bought it
"pre-converted". The thing is cherry, and sounds just as sweet as one. Also, the snare is of particular interest, because it was a "Tone Flange" model that somebody took off the flange, removed the screws, and carved it down and cut the bearing edges (that's why the tension rods on top are so short). Nice 80+ year old single-ply mahogany shell with the first-ever version of a sparkle wrap, which looks like a golden sand. Drummers always ask me about it at gigs because it sounds so amazing and looks so unique. Not to brag or anything... :D

Caddywumpus, you seem to know a lot about gear, are a seamlessly versatile musician, and apparently play out incessantly. Can you give us same names and dates? I looked on your public profile and there is no indication of the groups you play with. I just moved to the area and would like to glean from you.

[jwdrums]

20x18" kick w/ May mic
14x5.5" 6+6 snare w/ May mic
15x12" floor tom
6x10" pork pie snare
Gold glass DW

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[redneckabbott]

Here's my 18" bass with my monster kit lurking behind it



Then here's me, my dad, and nephew playing our "tiny kits". This is as small as it gets around my house

[Pollyanna]

Sorry about slow response ... thx Wonder1, love the cocktail kits.

Hailukah - great suitcase kit!

Noticing a few four-legged kick drums here. Good for lugging, a pain to set up.

I'm just about disqualified from my own thread now ... still have the RT, but it now includes a ride, a CR & a splash with both 12" and 8" toms (and still have the djembe). I'm morphing into neal Peart ... it's now three loads to the car!

[Bo Eder]

What an inspiring thread! I'm gonna start looking for little drums to play. Does the Gretsch Catalina Jazz qualify?

[Pollyanna]

Originally Posted by Bo Eder

Does the Gretsch Catalina Jazz qualify?

It's qualifies, Bo, but doesn't impress as a minimalist statement :)

Nice sounding kit, tho.

[Numberless]

I don't have pics but I do have some vids, playing my downsized Sonor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IH64N7HbSc

[wonder1]

Hi!
This is my Mini-Traveling drum-kits that I always fly with!!! That's a 10" snare,10"kick-drum,8"mini-hat.The Yamaha 8" tom & cymbal stand is borrow from my guitar player!!!

[Bram]

Originally Posted by wonder1

Hi!
This is my Mini-Traveling drum-kits that I always fly with!!! That's a 10" snare,10"kick-drum,8"mini-hat.The Yamaha 8" tom & cymbal stand is borrow from my guitar player!!!

That's how all the kits in this threads should look like (except the suitcase kits) I really love this stuff!!!

[toddy]

love that kit wonder1.

[kgreener]

Great kit there Wonder1! Would it be possible to let us know what your snare and kick drum are made of? I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like what you have there.

Thanks!

[ibernalq]

Hi.. I use a floor tom (16 x 16) as a little bass drum, and a homemade snare (10 x 5.5).. As hihats, a splash and a crash cut to 10 inches.. now I use a 10 murat renaissance splash as top hat...



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And here, with some rototoms and a mapex picollo brass snare (13 x 3.5)



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byeee...

[wonder1]

Originally Posted by kgreener

Great kit there Wonder1! Would it be possible to let us know what your snare and kick drum are made of? I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like what you have there.

Thanks!

Hi,Kgreener!
Thanks! ok! for the Mini-Kick drum,I'm using my very old Tama concert Tom,Change the covering(use to be silver colour)cover the bottom part of the tom with plywood so that I can attached a Tom holder.Same as the 10"snare.Use to be my old Tama 10" double-head tom.cut into 2, attached a home-made snare-wire under the top head.

[T.Underhill]

My new, tiny kit!!

Edgware (Boosey and Hawkes), early 60's
Birch w/ beech reinforced shells
12x20 bass drum, 8x12 tom, 16x16 floor tom, 5.5x14 snare

[mind_drummer]

Originally Posted by T.Underhill

My new, tiny kit!!

Edgware (Boosey and Hawkes), early 60's
Birch w/ beech reinforced shells
12x20 bass drum, 8x12 tom, 16x16 floor tom, 5.5x14 snare

Wow ! It's a really beautiful stencil kit at an excellent condition.

Cast hoops... very nice !!

[T.Underhill]

Originally Posted by mind_drummer

Wow ! It's a really beautiful stencil kit at an excellent condition.

Cast hoops... very nice !!

An eBay buy....it's my first real vintage kit. Had to use a screwdriver for the tension rods haha. The UK chrome is superior, there's no doubt about that

[Rick H.]

WOW! when you guys say tiny kits, you really mean TINY KITS!

Mapex Saturn in Arctic White

18" floor tom converted to a bass, 14" floor, 10" tom, 13"x 6" snare.





Check out the 50 + year old Zildjian hats that I have had all my life, and we got them used. Sound just like my 14" Paragons.

[bobdadruma]

I've got to put my Sonor Safari in this thread. It's high time that I did.
I love this little puppy.

[Pass.of.E.r.a.]

Why does it seem that every second person on here has a Sonor Safari??
(not that I'm dissing the kit)

-Jonathan

[Pollyanna]

Some of these are not tiny kits IMO ... small but not tiny ... A but not AA, if you like.

To qualify as tiny a kit should be unconventionally small rather than a class 4-piece.

How many kits do you have now, Bob?

Originally Posted by Pollyanna

Some of these are not tiny kits IMO ... small but not tiny ... A but not AA, if you like.

To qualify as tiny a kit should be unconventionally small rather than a class 4-piece.

How many kits do you have now, Bob?

Well compared to my REAL kit, this thing is tiny. :)

[bobdadruma]

Originally Posted by Pollyanna

How many kits do you have now, Bob?

I currently have 5 complete kits.
I am content with that amount for now.
I was thinking of selling the RT kit but Bo and some others talked sense into me and I didn't.

[Drumolator]

This a small kit with a minimum of stands. I could have easily removed the floor tom and two of the cymbals and taken a picture to have a "tiny" kit.

[gallonsloth]

here's a pic of a small config o' mine.
picture was taken by my friend here http://www.flickr.com/photos/chr_dineley/

[samgallant]

Catalina Maple 16x16 floor tom with Danmar floor tom to bass drum riser; old 3x13 Dixon piccolo snare a friend gave for a cymbal trade, 18" Fierce Crash, 14 AA Fusions.

[Tropellor]

It's no Suitcase... that's for sure. But check out what a friend just got his dirty little hands on...

It's a Eucalypt and Birch shell, 2002 Premier. Kick is 18x10, 12 and 14 toms, and a 13 snare. Sounds great, and is awesome for the small club shows.

Excuse the dodgy pics.

[Needhamdrum]

My tiny kit to practice on while Im home :D

Had to throw my cocktail kit into the ring! Made by Metropolitan Drum who is no longer in business. 14"x27" main drum, 10" Pearl snare, 6" Tom, and an 8" deep Tom.
All rims mounted. It's a fun little bit of kit!

[Dutch]

Here's my recently acquired Sonor jungle kit, shown with my maple snare (from TJS Custom Drums in Arizona) and some assorted cymbals. And some kids' toys. Sorry for the grainy photos.

Dutch

[Kenny Allyn]

When my SONOR Safari kit is more than I want to deal with ... I now have the "Back Porch" kit


My band has a gig in a place so small we have to move tables out of a corner to even set up drums, it's a weekly blues invitational jam,
and the kit needs to be very small with fast set-up and take-down. These reconfigured pieces from my full size Pearl kit work very well in their intended roll.

[Stixnergard2]

Here are my small kits:
Yamaha Hipgig jr. 16,10,13, Ludwig Acrolite snare
Fibes 16,10,13, Mapex Black Panther Cherry 6x13 snare
Tama Star Classic Performer 18,12,14,14sn, (sold)
Mapex Meridian Maple Manahttan 18,12,14,14sn

[Cephalic]

Not a real small set up... but the drums are on the small side. :)

16" tama rockstar kick
10" + 14" sonor s-class pro toms
12" tama artwood snare

[wonder1]

Hi,
Just want to share my new drum.It's a 8" head for snare & Kick.
Regards,
Wonder1