Good to hear...Nice snare!!

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Good Job Honey!!! And thank you Barry for helping out with this!!!

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No Problem. Glad to help!

Barry

It's an MIJ stencuil...millions of them, most with 6 lugs, this one appears to have 8. If it is an early one, it will have a 3 ply shell, later will be 5, 6 or9 ply. The thcker ones actually will tune much higher. The "name brand" means very little as the stencil market was rampant in the 60s, slowly dying out into the mid-later 70s.. That drum was made by Pearl for some distributor somewhere likely in the upper mid-west region. That was the game in the 60-70s, Star and Pearl would build 100,000's of these types of drums/sets and put whatever name badge on it you wanted.

Nice looking snare,...

For the archive,... the picture from a Dutch auction site that I posted last week,...

stedi, is this a 3 ply or 6 ply shell? The fact is it is a Pearl stencil. The strainer is the dead give away.

I have honestly no idea,...

I posted a picture of a few drums that were offered and didn't know the brand so I asked for help,...

Pure coincidence, on that same auction site, this snare was offered and answered my question. This thread helped Barry to answer Gellyfish question.

Here's the link: http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=24005

You gotta love the forum !!!

Sound is fat and warm like gretsch?

Yep, definitely a "stencil" drum. Attached are pictures of a WMP drum from eBay. The Red Pearl drum and pictures of the lugs and tension rods were from a drum in my past collection. As you can see, those lugs are very heavy cast metal. Also, note how much thicker, and well made, the tension rods are in relation to standard 12-24 rods. I also have an 8-lug St. George drum with the same lugs. That drum is in Oyster Black and a pretty cool drum!