Ask Ringo Starr about his decades-long love affair with Ludwig drums. Go ahead; we did. You’re guaranteed to smile. What’s more, the Beatles drummer also gave two thumbs up (and playfully ...

There was Ringo Starr, wailing away on his Ludwig Downbeat oyster black pearl drum kit. “It changed me,” Astridge recalled. “He was my guy. That moment in time made me a Beatles fan and I ...

At the age of eight, his son William F. Ludwig Jr. watched a neighborhood parade headed by the drum corps of the First Regiment Illinois National Guard. William Jr. would recall later ...

Ludwig's Acrolite and Supraphonic snare drums are decades-old designs, here given updates with hammered shells. It's hard to justify the Copperphonic's suggested price, but it does sound wonderful.

By heading to Charlotte, that means the tour also will bring the Beatles drummer to the region where his beloved Ludwig drums are made. A plant in Monroe is the only place in the world that makes ...