All about your favourite vintage drums, news, shows & much more.

Here you can find a selection of vintage and classic drum related web sites, as well as friends of Classic Drums.

Here you can find the obituary of William F Ludwig II.

Here you can find some examples of rare Ludwig items.

Here you can find a selection of customer's kits.

Here you can find some examples of restored Ludwig classics.

Incorporating the full history of Ludwig and it's many changes over the years, this book is the definitive biography of the company both as Ludwig and WFL.

William F Ludwig was born in 1878 in Germany.

Steve Thompson Steve playing with his group Al2gether.

Brian and his Ludwigs Here is Brian on his Ludwig drums.

Classic Drums are pleased to announce we can undertake repairs and re-chroming of your vintage Ludwig parts.

RCI introduces Starlite - the custom made acrylic drum range.

The Buddy Rich Drum Company had it's official launch at the NAMM Show in Anaheim.

We are very pleased to launch a brand new version of the Classic Drums web site.