When my brother recently passed away, we inherited his drum set. My sister in law (my other brother’s wife), asked me to get it set up for the grand kids to play.
It’s a PDP five piece set (bass, three toms, snare) with an additional Pearl metal snare with upgraded hoops. He also had a full set of Zildjian cymbals and a Wu Han china but those went to somebody else. Which kind of sucks because the cymbals had been carefully curated over a 40 year time span. Those, and the snare, were the parts that really made the set his own.
My problem is all the hardware was removed from the toms and now I have to put it all back together. The other stuff is pretty rudimentary. I helped him move and set up his drums for years.
Is there anything I need to be particularly careful about when putting all the hardware back on the toms?
As for other shells without hardwares you just need to take out the hardwares in the bags so we can see if you have all parts are there. Too bad about the wu Han cymbals.
The hardwares can get expensive quickly man. I was after the minimum “foot print”
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