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Gretsch drums dating

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Get this from a library! Dating of vintage Gretsch drums based upon serial numbers: challenging the legend, lore and lies. .

One of the intriguing aspects of collecting vintage drums is discovering when your instrument was made. But unlikely as it may seem, the broadcast of one television show in early played an unwitting role in helping to date more closely one particular brand of drum. It was the day the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Their television debut ushered in not only a new era for rock and roll, but something more.

Prompted by the insurance industry, the new regulation mandated serial numbers on certain goods including drums. Our dealers begged us to put them on, so we had our badge manufacturer imprint sequential numbers on the badges for all of our drums. With the debut of serial numbers, Ludwig helped the dealers comply with the new law. Though in actuality, the way to pin down the elusive age of these drums would call more for the sharp pencil of a record keeper than the skill of a Sherlock Holmes.

When we found a drum with both a serial number and complete date stamp present, this data was entered into a serial number index. We hoped that, in time, the index would reveal a consistent chronological order in the serial number sequence. The reasoning for our optimism was that since the serial numbers were imprinted on the badges in a sequential order of lower to higher numbers and since the badges were installed over a duration of time as represented by the date stamps inside of the shells, a direct relationship between the serial numbers and date stamps was inevitable, even though the Ludwig factory did not intend it.

As our record keeping continued and more serial numbers and dates were added to the index, the correlation between them became increasingly evident. The serial numbers increased as their corresponding date stamps moved forward in time.