Wondering if anyone can help out here, I'm just curious to find out some info on my drum kit. Its a 5 piece Slingerland kit that I purchased new from a guitar shop sometime around 1998. There's no metal badges anywhere on the shells, just the sticker pictured on the attached photo and another sticker on each shell that says "Made in USA". From what I've been finding online Slingerland stopped making the "Spirit" line in the USA sometime in the 80's and sent production to Taiwan where they switched material to luan. I'm not entirely sure what my shells are made of, they have some sort of black liner inside and the exposed rim edge kind of looks like MDF board. Also of note, the tom mounting hardware isnt the standard Pearl type, but rather a single double tom holder in the bass drum with geared (not sure if thats the right term) L-rods.
I can certainly get more photos if anyone would like to see them. I'm just curious for some history on where/when these might have been made and any other info to go along with them. It seems from reading up online that as soon as the Slingerland name was sold and production moved out of the country that quality really declined. The curious thing to me is that these have the "Made in the USA" sticker on them.
Thanks in advance for any insight.
I can certainly get more photos if anyone would like to see them. I'm just curious for some history on where/when these might have been made and any other info to go along with them. It seems from reading up online that as soon as the Slingerland name was sold and production moved out of the country that quality really declined. The curious thing to me is that these have the "Made in the USA" sticker on them.
Thanks in advance for any insight.