Oct 11, 2007 - Crown Snare Drum Layout

[Webmaster]

Here is a vintage Crown Japanese Snare Drum. Suprisingly I was impressed with this drum as I photographed it. It is 10 lugs with decent hardware...

I purchased it just to photograph it and show the shell interior.

We get a lot of questions about Japanese Drums and I felt it worthy and important to give people a better understanding of the construction.

If any one wants this or the Star Japanese Snare drum let me know, they were both purchased just to photograph.

David

[Allan Vesa]

Hi,

I have a crown bass drum and tom tom that are Tiger eye in color and have a blue round badge that says Crown Japan . Is that a rare color ???

[Webmaster]

I can't say for sure, there were so many crazy finishes out there. It would be a less common color and the value would not be much greater then any other Crown from the same era.

David

[jonnistix]

Originally Posted by Allan Vesa

Hi,

I have a crown bass drum and tom tom that are Tiger eye in color and have a blue round badge that says Crown Japan . Is that a rare color ???

The wrap is called Fibre Gold Pearl. And although it is very hard to come by, I cannot call it "rare". These are MIJ, and very few exist in this wrap, but they are out there. Someone here has a complete set brought out about 6 months ago.
Let's try to keep the word "rare" to it's intended use. I call them hard to find, really hard to find, very few available, but not "rare"
Unless you are talking about the red ones, then they are not FGP, but more a Ruby Strata.