I just purchased this kit with very little information. The only pics I received are the two listed here. The price was right so I went for it. I cannot find this particular kit in any catalog. It appears to be all original with a little bit of the bass drum inlay missing. The bass drum feet appear to be the type that you could get out of the catalog but were never pictured with any catalog kits. The snare appears to be the Hollywood Ace or Deluxe Student Model. It could be a Swing Master kit with an add on floor tom. At any rate I am wondering if you Slingerland dudes can shed some light. The interiors seem to be maple which lead me to believe that these are mid sixties or so. I wanted to get more pics but they literally had these packed an hour after I bought them.
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Is that a 12" depth on the bass? If so you'll really dig it. Very nice drums man!
Not a guru just havin fun with some old dusty drums.
Something else that I just noticed. The bass drum is definitely 22 or 24 inches. It is a 20 lug drum. I have a feeling this is going to end up being one of those "you can't count on the catalogs" type of thing.
Both 60's Slingerland 22's I have are 20 luggers, 10 each side. Single spur each side. One is a 66 the other a 68. Both light blue pearl. I think the 20's and smaller basses had 16 lugs, 8 each side. Some of them anyway there's always exceptions.
Not a guru just havin fun with some old dusty drums.
People who know me in this drum forum and another drum forum know that I think catalogs show pretty pictures of drum sets that a drummer or a music store could order. I think that, in my 57 years of drum set ownership, and owning 50 or more drum sets, very few of those drum sets were matches for a "catalog correct" drum set. I've owned many sets
I bought from music stores that ordered configurations not pictured in the catalogs. I've ordered configurations not pictured in catalogs. I've worked for a leading drum manufacturer that had pictures in our catalogs based--not on best selling configurations--but, on what sizes were most plentiful in the warehouse. Your BDP Slingerland set look like a great set. Please let us know what the sizes are. My 1963 BDP Leedy by Slingerland is not a "catalog correct" set. But, it was a factory complete set from Henry Adler's shop in New York City. The drums are 14x20, 16x16, 9x13, and Shelly Manne snare drum. Is this a Shelly Manne set? If ordered this way, it could be.
They look really nice. As stated by many, Slingerland BDP is beautiful.
I have a Stage Band set that sounds, and looks good.
Enjoy them.
cool kit. It has the push button FT leg brackets so i think that puts it early/mid 60s? What is that lug on the bass drum by the spur in the photo? Is it attached or just a spare sitting there?
cool kit. It has the push button FT leg brackets so i think that puts it early/mid 60s? What is that lug on the bass drum by the spur in the photo? Is it attached or just a spare sitting there?
Good question about the extra lug. I saw it to and asked the sales guy he said he was not aware of it so who knows at this point. Great catch.
The lug rows on the BD look so close together and far from the bearing edges. Fingers crossed it's like 12x22 or such. A possible but unlikely mod is if it's a normal 14" depth that once had center lugs and now has two rows of single-ended lugs instead.
Naaaaaah... Is that an internal muffler too?
The bass drum definitely appears to be a 12x22. I cannot tell, but the rack tom seems small, like a 8x12 and the floor tom could be either a 16x16 or 14x14. I'll definitely have to wait to be sure. Does it hurt re-sale to have odd sized drums? Hypothetically, this could be a 12x22, 8x12, 14x14 (or 16x16) and 5x14. The only other 12 inch depth bass drum I saw was on a Slingerland 2N Jobbing kit that I recently sold to one of our fellow forum members.
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