Ringo Starr

"In 1971 George Harrison and Ravi Shankar held their famous Concert for Bangladesh at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The stage was positively bristling with MD421s, including all of the stars’ lead vocal mics (Eric Clapton, Ringo Star, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell and Billy Preston) Check out the video." -Martin Mitchell's Microphones.

At the end of April 1963, Ringo acquired his first kit Ludwig Downbeat color Oyster Black Pearl (on the first tour of the band in the US he acquired another identical kit). This kit contained a 14 "x20" bass drum, an 8 "x12" Tom Holder and a 14 "x14" Floor Tom. With this kit you also purchased a 5 "x14" Ludwig Jazz Festival snare drum. With the Downbeat kits he recorded the singles She Loves You / I´ll Get You, I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy and the German single Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand / Sie Liebt Dich, he also recorded part of the EP Long Tall Sally and part of the LP A Hard Day´s Night.

Ringo purchased his first Super Classic kit on May 31, 1964 (he purchased his second kit in 1965 on a US tour). The color of the Super Classic was similar to that of the Downbeat, the differences between them were the measurements of the bodies, the Super Classic kits contained a 14 "x22" bass drum, a 9 "x13" Tom Holder and a Floor Tom 16 "x16". These kits were also used with a 5 "x14" Ludwig Jazz Festival snare drum. This model was used until 1969. Fun fact: In the first show this kit was used, it wasn't Ringo who played, but Jimmie Nicol on the tour of Denmark, Holland, Hong Kong and Australia in 1964.

Ringo Starr used the Premier Royal Ace 4"x14" snare drum as part of his Premier Duroplastic Mahogany kit, as shown in the referenced image.

Ringo played the final chord in A Day In A Life.

Ringo Starr used the Yamaha Recording Custom Drum Kit in the film "Give My Regards to Broad Street" (1984) and in the music video for "Take It Away." This is evidenced by a user-uploaded photo.

Ringo Starr playing John Lennon's '62 Martin D-28 (1969)

He's playing bongo in this video.

In this page, it's said what Ringo Starr played Ludwig Expando Bongo in the recording studio and the film of A hard day's night.

He's playing ASBA congas in the photo. (1967 / the recording of Sgt pepper)

"Ludwig tambourines were used during the recording of Hey Bulldog."

"Here is the hi hat tambourine bar (aka Tamba Ching) used during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions."

"Here's a set of Premier bongos that Ringo purchased with his Premier kit in September 1960."

Can be seen playing the keyboard in this video.

Recording the snare drum through Shure SM57 in this video.

Ringo Starr is seen singing into the Altec 639B starting at 1:35 and throughout the music video for The Beatles - Now And Then.

This photo shows Ringo playing a Hohner Pianet over Paul’s shoulder.

A pair of size C Foote's drumsticks used by Starr was auctioned via Julien's.

A pair of drumsticks stamped "Foote's c," branded for the Footes music store in London. The sticks exhibit marks and nicks indicating use by Starr from an unknown date.

Length: 15 1/2 inches

Ringo Starr uses the Ludwig LM400 Supraphonic Snare, as mentioned in the Equipboard article about the Ludwig Hollywood Kit.

In the YouTube video "How The Beatles Recorded I'm Only Sleeping - A Deep Dive" by Adam Mormolstein, it is detailed that Ringo Starr was mic'ed using a couple of AKG D19 microphones and an AKG D20 microphone on the bass drum.