Show us your Four Piece Kits.

[Elvis]

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Maple & Walnut. Whacha Think?

I think this is a case where I can paraphrase a post I made at Cymbalholic the first time I saw a new Gretsch/Leedy snare drum....

Hey Pete,

The Louve called. They want their drum set back. ()


Elvis

 

[Bozozoid]

Seeing..hearing..and playing a cheap set of R.O.C. drums mmmmany years ago nearly scarred me for life. A double bass black kit..multiple toms. I believe I remember the store owner mentioning Luan mahogany. Very beefy sounding..dark..warm..punchy.. full bodied. I was young..literally for years! I had a problem as to why upper level kits were not impressing me. Poplar..luan...give me the wood that absorbs all the high frequencies emitting the darker..fuller tones.

 

[paradiddle pete]

Luan ain't Mahogany!

 

[sfmill]

Oriollo Bakar Spun Copper Drums

 

[nicholasBR]

I choose Sabian actually ?

The AAX are their fast, bright and cutting line similar to A customs with brilliant finish and machine lathe. To make even more cutting, the raw dry bell process that AAX does works well, and looks killer contrasting the brilliance and rawness.

I love AAX line especially their older AAXplosion series from early 2ks.

I also have several AA’s, HHXs, an HH, and Paragon.

For the Pearl outfit being made of birch/mahog it’s a very fast sounding kit with initial attack and quicker decay.
I could have put a round of 20” crashes around the kit and change the sustain relationship.
Thanks for checking it out!

Thanks. The reason I'm asking is because I'm tempted by the AAX promo pack. It consists of the 15" AAX medium hi-hats, the 17" AAX thin crash, the 19" AAX thin crash and a 21" AAX medium ride. I've never bought Sabians before but this pack looks extremely good value.

 

[Elvis]

Seeing..hearing..and playing a cheap set of R.O.C. drums mmmmany years ago nearly scarred me for life. A double bass black kit..multiple toms. I believe I remember the store owner mentioning Luan mahogany. Very beefy sounding..dark..warm..punchy.. full bodied. I was young..literally for years! I had a problem as to why upper level kits were not impressing me. Poplar..luan...give me the wood that absorbs all the high frequencies emitting the darker..fuller tones.

From what I found out recently, the old ROC drums were an effort to bring a high quality of manufacturing to inexpensive Luan shells that had been coming out of SE Asia for years.
I guess the result was a pretty nice sounding drum that tuned up easily and exemplified all the classic traits of Luan, which is a really fat and warm sound.
I believe they were made in California and the guy who made them had been a wood worker for almost his whole life.
So if your old drums were actual "R.O.C." brand drums, there's nothing "cheap" about them.
These days, C&C has taken up that mantle, offering a couple of models of their drums utilizing Luan shells.
Reports are that those drums are pretty nice, too.

Elvis

P.S. - Not an ROC kit, but one of mine...just to keep the thread on track....

 

[Bozozoid]

From what I found out recently, the old ROC drums were an effort to bring a high quality of manufacturing to inexpensive Luan shells that had been coming out of SE Asia for years.
I guess the result was a pretty nice sounding drum that tuned up easily and exemplified all the classic traits of Luan, which is a really fat and warm sound.
I believe they were made in California and the guy who made them had been a wood worker for almost his whole life.
So if your old drums were actual "R.O.C." brand drums, there's nothing "cheap" about them.
These days, C&C has taken up that mantle, offering a couple of models of their drums utilizing Luan shells.
Reports are that those drums are pretty nice, too.

Elvis

P.S. - Not an ROC kit, but one of mine...just to keep the thread on track....

Holy drum! Info Batman!..all jokes aside your post made my flipping day!. All these many years go by and NOW I read this?. I knew! I was right but try telling that to the guys hauling their kits around in anvil cases. I'm gonna have an extra beer tonight.

 

[Yamaha Rider]

Luan ain't Mahogany!

Ply war!

 

[Elvis]

Ply war!

Maple Bars!

 

[Elvis]

Holy drum! Info Batman!..all jokes aside your post made my flipping day!. All these many years go by and NOW I read this?. I knew! I was right but try telling that to the guys hauling their kits around in anvil cases. I'm gonna have an extra beer tonight.

Glad I could make your day....have one for me, please. =)

 

[Capital D]

Here are my drums. Keller Vintage Mahogany shells with center bridge lugs. Round over edges with a slight 45 degree back cut. 6 coats of clear satin lacquer and 3 coats of finishing wax. The deVille badge on the front hoop is from my 1970 Cadillac convertible that I sold about 10 years ago. 12x8/15x12/20x14. The snare is an aluminum Trick 14x5 shell with 70s Slingerland hardware that I took from a badly out of round student model.

70s New Beats, 19" K Constantinople Crash/Ride, A Avedis 20" Crash Ride, & a 20" Dream Vintage Bliss Crash/Ride. I like Crash/Rides. all sitting on DW ultralight hardware. Rogers Dinomatic bass drum pedal.

This kit has been dragged all over the place for the last 8 years and has never failed me.

The other stuff in the first pic are a 24x8 that I cut down from a Taye 24x16, 40x16 WFL Concert Bass Drum, and a cool little 12" gong.

 

[Jasta 11]

Updated version of the Pete Thomas DW set. The 18x22 bass drum sounded great, but was like playing golf with an orange golf ball. Yeah, you can do it, but it just isn't right. Dana Bentley had a matching 16x22 from the same era and in the same condition (date stamp only 6 months apart), so we did a straight up trade. Much more in proportion now, methinks.

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the cymbals on the floor tom look like a Salvador Dali painting...

 

[Deleted member 526375]

the cymbals on the floor tom look like a Salvador Dali painting...

Love it! That’s the Istanbul clapper thing. Useful for one sound only, but if you need/want that sound...

 

[sfmill]

Unix Stave Anigré Bop Kit

 

[dwsabianguy]

Does it count if its bones are a four piece?

 

[Darth Vater]

I just purchased this. Hasn't been delivered yet. Summit Drums solid shell curly maple 22-13-16/14x6 sn.

 

[Olimpass]

Had this one awhile. Star midget drum kit.
The floor Tom is another make but has matching wrap. Snare 10”, tom 9”, FT 14”, bass drum 16”.

 

[Olimpass]

This is my Werco mij kit. 12,14,14, 20”.

 

[Olimpass]

A sound percussion kit I’ve scored on the cheap and cleaned up nice. 8 lug bass drum and floor tom. 10, 13, 14, 18”.

 

[Neal Pert]

This was from my first post-pandemic gig back in late April. Yamaha AHM bop kit with a Recording Custom aluminum snare.