Im gonna keep the snare drum for a conversation piece. What amazes me about these drums is why wouuld they equip the kick with a high-end Super Set O Matic mounting system. Those dont come cheap on-line. Its funny I can find something as rare as this kit but finding it a challenge to find a Zoomatic throwoff for my B.R. snare.

Curious of how they sound. Thanks!

Creighton

Like a single headed concert with about 3 or 4 Deadringers attached to the underside of the head.

Same reason Ludwig thought that the "Combo" series was a good idea.......remember those? Molded plastic snare drum shell that crushed under any tension and plastic lug casings that cracked and broke under same.....and don't get me started on Remo's drums.....the PTS series? The line of cardboard shelled drums they sold? (Albeit they impregnated their shells with some kind of plastic resin, but still!)

Sonatube? Interesting. Is it safe to say the Masonite shells were a different era? I thought they were somewhat related. And masonite was sometimes mistaken for cardboard.

A good friend of mine purchased a similar set( on my suggestion, no INSISTENCE) on C/L and when we got them home...Well,I bought them back from him after he kept the cymbals and stands-too much guilt. The complete set of hardware now resides at JCcabinets and I got a beautiful mahogany veneered drum set. The cardboard"shells" had been sprayed with a varnish but not impregnated like Remo Acousticon, so under tension they immediately bend over at the edges. The history of drums and drumming is littered with embarrassing dead ends and quirky "make it work" schemes. Plastic tension casings, cardboard shells, aluminum tubing cymbal stands with plastic fittings, and of course the wonderful BD pedal, the Gretsch "Monster" with a white metal connecting bar and NO BEARINGS. This is a fun subject that could be a whole posting itself-The WORST list...

I'd be tempted to buy some nice custom shells and utilize all of that hardware which appears in good condition...

I, (like Glenn), had thought that Sonatube was a similar formulation to Masonite.. and would have held up much better...

Cheers

John

I ran across a set of these many years ago. My mom asked me to check out a set that a friend of hers wanted to buy for her grandson. I went with my mom's friend to look at the drums. They looked nice, seventies style hardware Slingerlands. The badges were a bit odd (stickers) but other than that they looked fine for the asking price. I told her that they were worth the money and that Slingerland was one of the best brands you could buy, although they were no longer in business.

She bought them and I offered to take the drums home and get them into shape for her grandson. As soon as I pulled off the first head I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw that they were made of cardboard. I had heard about these but had never seen any before. It was the hardware that led me astray. I expected that any cheaper line Slingy's would have the Pearl style mounts like the Spirits but these had the double SOM holder and all the other hardware was the same as the top of the line 70's drums. I suppose the foil badge should have given me pause but the price was so low it seemed like a no brainer (and in reality the parts were worth the price, but of course they weren't looking for a set to part out).

Fortunately they had been purchased very cheaply so it wasn't a huge deal. I got them sounding okay and he used them for a few years with no problem. If I remember right we were lucky in that the snare was a metal model so it tuned up fine, I left the toms and bass tuned very low to try to preserve the "bearing edges". I'm not sure whatever happened to them. I don't think the kid pursued drumming after high school and they may well have been sold again to another unsuspecting person. They were white so anyone in the Mississippi valley area with white Slingerlands with foil badges may want to double check their shell construction :)

Not an A-1 idea as Slingerland flailed about in its death throes. I bought some sonatube for a concrete project a few years back and it is the same stuff. It's pretty heavy duty but it is still just cardboard and not impregnated with any sort of plastic or resin (once the concrete sets up the tubing tears easily enough when you go to pull it off the concrete).

The hardware on this kit is MINT. In fact, this kit looks like it hit only a few time and stored away for 3 decades. As I said earlier the snare is beautiful. I was gonna put it on line just to see how much someone will pay for it.

I've never seen the Super setomatic set up that way, but it looks like it might work real well like that.