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Really amazing, Wolfgang.
I´m so surprised as you. I had never heard nothing about sds7 cymbals. It´s great revealing !!!
Thanks for the link

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Wow! Does anyone have one of these and care to share some pics? 


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 From: superwolle70 <superwolle70@...>
To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012, 13:10
Subject: [Simmons Drums] One of the last mysteries of mankind: The SDS7 cymbal pads
 

  
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Where have you guys been?! I sold two of these last year and informed the group of their auctions. They were New Old Stock in the original boxes from St. Albans. I kept some for myself. The ones mounted on the rack look like mock-ups. The Arc-de-Cymbal looks like the real deal but, I've never seen them in any color other than white.

BTW, I checked our archives and found the SDS-V price list from '83. The Stereo Cymbal Pad is listed and one of us posted a print ad of them, as well.

The price list from 1983 is definetely referring to this one: http://www.simmonsmuseum.com/p/pads/sds5_cymbal_white_front.jpg which is an SDSV pad. The SDSV cymbal module/pad came out in 1983 while the SDS7 cymbal pad prototype was 1986 or 1987. And yes, the SDSV cymbal pad was already "stereo" although not every cymbal module supported the separate bell trigger

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "sovereigng" <sovereigng@...> wrote:

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> BTW, I checked our archives and found the SDS-V price list from '83. The Stereo Cymbal Pad is listed and one of us posted a print ad of them, as well.
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Those you have sold were SDSV cymbal pads. They are different

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "sovereigng" <sovereigng@...> wrote:

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> Where have you guys been?! I sold two of these last year and informed the group of their auctions. They were New Old Stock in the original boxes from St. Albans. I kept some for myself. The ones mounted on the rack look like mock-ups. The Arc-de-Cymbal looks like the real deal but, I've never seen them in any color other than white.
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True, but if you study the picture you'll notice the ones on top are based on the original and look the same until you enlarge it. The pair on the rack are completely different.

the design is similar, but we are talking about two generations

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "sovereigng" <sovereigng@...> wrote:

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> True, but if you study the picture you'll notice the ones on top are based on the original and look the same until you enlarge it. The pair on the rack are completely different.
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