This month we are featuring two 1929 Ludwig Trap Sets, both with original factory painted scenes on the bass drum heads. These are two wonderful examples of a working professional drummer’s set from that era. These two sets also show different choices of accessories that would be available on 1929 drum sets. Let’s look at these two different looking drum sets in detail. The 1929 Ludwig Winter Scene Trap set has a 14×28 black lacquer bass drum with a bass drum pedal, cymbal clanger, and rare cymbal muffler. The muffler was activated by pulling your foot up to engage a muffler pad behind the cymbal. These were very popular in the vaudeville era and theatre industry. The bass drum has a double cymbal hanger attachment with a Ludwig sizzle cymbal, a Zenjian crash cymbal, a woodblock, a set of four tuned cowbells, and a 10” Chinese tom also attached to […]

March 2025 Issue