A quick update regarding this gathering.
I acquired several hundred pounds of drum parts yesterday. It is not the motherload of New Old Stock rare parts. However, there are many, many useable vintage parts here. Everything is covered in sawdust due to where they were stored, but the parts themselves seem to be in nice condition.
It includes things from American companies Ludwig, Gretsch, Slingerland, and Leedy and several Asian companies like TAMA, Yamaha and Pearl. There are lots of lugs, tension rods, T-rods, leg mounts, RIMS mounts, memory locks, many long tension rods and claws from single tension marching drums, tom arms, L-arms, spurs, and lots of miscellaneous stuff. There is also a fair amount of new modern parts for custom work - tube lugs, tension rods, brackets, claws, etc.... I did not take the opportunity to search every box or bin, but just bought the entire lot. I then moved everything into a storage room.
I hope to sort through them before next week, but will probably end up setting out the many boxes and tubs for people to search through for themselves. For those on the forum who do not make it next week, at a later date I will get these organized and try to find them new homes.
This should keep me out of trouble for a while.
Rick
