Here is a question that would be hard to answer. Let’s take Ludwig, Rogers and Slingerland alone and think about how many drum sets were produced. Let’s say between 1950 and 1980, 30 years of the big three building the drums that we all crave for. How many of these vintage drums survived the years without getting destroyed by fire or floods or whatever. Or just plain ole thrown in the garbage.
I write/ask this because now that I am addicted to the sport of hunting down drums (sport?) and bringing them home, I wonder just how many are still out there and where are they. Will we be able to continue to find these vintage drums? Obviously the newer ones will be easier to find.
I find it very enjoyable to drive to that unknown seller’s house to check out what he really has, licking my chops the entire way there. My problem is once I get them home and cleaned up, I can’t let them go. Which brings up another question, how much will the value of my drums increase over the next 15 /20 years? I am telling my wife that this is part of my retirement plan,lol. But is it an investment or will they be pretty much worth what I paid today? I can’t sell them but want to keep accumulating them also.
Oh well, what do you guys think? I was just wondering and needed something to do while my wife gets ready to go out for breakfast. She has four cats to feed, lol.
Jeff C