Are these Drums ludwig??

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Completely uneducated here, but I think thats a later addition. From Memory the really early Ludy Logos were printed really small, and in a "script" type font. You'd probably also have the keystone bagdes on the vents.

Another thing to consider is the minimal number of lugs! Most Ludy's I've seen have a lot more lugs than that.
 
I think they are the cheaper japanease made models but are not ludwig, they would of been mad e by companies such as Pearl and Tama. Any age on them?
 
The rims are the old Slingerland die cast rims! So are the lugs! My bet is very old Slingerland - early 1950s. Someone put on Ludwig Heads.
 
Yeah, I don;t think they are tama's, I have a couple of sets of the first run of Tamas (1965-66) and they look a little more Modern than the ones in the pic. Can you see what colour the inside is painted? if its grey then it may well be slingerland, or a japanese copy.... depends on the wood.
 
dr.colossus said:
Yeah, I don;t think they are tama's, I have a couple of sets of the first run of Tamas (1965-66) and they look a little more Modern than the ones in the pic. Can you see what colour the inside is painted? if its grey then it may well be slingerland, or a japanese copy.... depends on the wood.
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I have a set that was made by Tama that are identical to them and they have the same lug system and everything, they are not under the tama name though.
 
Brad_C said:
I have a set that was made by Tama that are identical to them and they have the same lug system and everything, they are not under the tama name though.
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Interesting! What name are they under?
 
dr.colossus said:
Interesting! What name are they under?
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Sorry they are not tama but pearl, i have a tama snare under some weird name but the name these drums made by pearl are under the name coronet, when i got them they had a ludwig head on the bass drum and look just like his but are a pearl color.
 
PhilGood said:
The rims are the old Slingerland die cast rims! So are the lugs! My bet is very old Slingerland - early 1950s. Someone put on Ludwig Heads.
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They are not "die cast " hoops but "stick saver hoops". Slingerland and old Pearls have those hoops as well as japanese nock offs.
 
cobradenim said:
They are not "die cast " hoops but "stick saver hoops". Slingerland and old Pearls have those hoops as well as japanese nock offs.
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Well, my bet based on the lugs is that they are Slingerland. The shells kind of give it away...

Still looks like standard Slingerland rims.
 
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