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Vintage drum kits from the 1920s and 1930s

• eru 12y ago
  Always nice to see the evolution of design.
• shanev 12y ago
  Beautiful. I love the "low boys" which predated hi-hats. I should add a vintage kit to my app Drum Kit.
• S_A_P 12y ago
  I wanna find some Chinese toms. Great stuff
• wpeterson 12y ago
  Needs more cowbell!!!! 3 is not enough.
• jahnu 12y ago
  "Note the glowing bass drum: inside is a light bulb, which, aside from making the drum look really cool, served the practical purpose of keeping the bass drum heads heated, therefore tighter, therefore better sounding." Surely heat would caused the head to expand?
  • jws 12y ago
    Drier skins are tighter. This is before air conditioning and you could have lots of humid weather.
    • jacquesm 12y ago
      And the tension rings around the head will expand so it's a double win.
• frik 12y ago
  From the headline, I thought it was about new virtual instrument plugins for ProTools/Cubase/etc. Though, it's about the real drum kits from that era - still interesting.
• conradfr 12y ago
  Great article. I play a 60s Ludwig kit but never really dig earlier than that era or maybe the 50s.
• AndrewWright 12y ago
  I'm loving this article. When listening to old jazz recordings where trap kits like this were used, it's clear that there's sounds that would be difficult to reproduce with modern gear, particularly cymbals (all those hi-hat predecessors!). I'm amazed that the hardware held up. The way I play, I'm sure I'd destroy these kits in minutes.