great snare. i havent seen many. the ones that i have run across were all black if i recall correctly,circa late 50's i think. any idea of age on yours?

mike

Besides, 4 out of 5 people surveyed prefer maple syrup to cedar syrup.

Very cool snare by the way.

Different sides of world,different kind of pancake,hahahaha

We make them thinner,filled with grind nuts and honey or jam ,and than roll them or bend in quarters

And snare...I found it in 1963 and 1964-64 Sonor cat scans,in late 50's had different snare strainer

Oh yeah... Canadian maple syrup. While visiting Calgary some time back, I stopped for breakfast at a mom and pop place (I prefer mom and pop's -vs- Denny's style eateries) and ordered a stack of flapjacks. The gal served 'em with real butter... and Mrs. Butterworth's!!!???!!!

I mean, why bother, right?

I asked if they had any 'real' syrup... Suddenly, I was okay! Even though I was one of those obvious weirdo's from California, with Cali license plates on my car. Yep, I was part of the extended family then. I knew the correct way to gobble a flap jack. In the three days I was there, we had some great conversations while I was chomping on her home made pancakes and Labon (? I don't remember the name of the syrup) Canadian maple syrup.

there used to be a cheap restaurant about 10 miles from me, beside a cute little lake that sits about 150 feet above Lake Ontario but only 100 yards or so from it.....everyone thinks, the lake should just empty itself into Lake Ontario. in those days 90% of the tourists here were from the U.S. the big joke, was to make up super thick sugar syrup and just load the artificial maple flavouring into it. it was the big hit for breakfast at the dive, with repeated choruses of "make sure you put that Canadian Maple syrup on them"

very neat little drum.... now you just need one of those egg shaped bass drums to go with it!

I went to Canada the first time when I was 12 with my dad and uncle, to go fishing in Wawa,Ontario...

Coming back,we stopped at some little roadside place..and I had some of the best pancakes!

Maybe now,I wouldn't feel that way...but..boy oh boy..were those good at the time...Bowing

well; things are a little different now. there is a great sense of pride attached to local production but sometimes with the pendulum swinging too far the other way and local endorsements being based on nationalism. Ayotte , was/is the only Canadian drum maker that really obtained universal availability..... fine drums but I don't feel any different about them because they are from B.C. and Canadian. They might as well be from Iceland., given that I am 3,000 mi. from either. We are encouraged to think in terms of local , as being national. There is a move afoot in Ontario , to legislate local food ,on a provincewide basis----beginning at the Quebec border and ending at the Manitoba border ...and upper New York state? absolutely, not local, even if as I do, you live 40 miles away.

In fact ; what we all relate to, is the bond we have, based on our common resources, governed primarily by watersheds, not political borders ; that's what drives and has driven us forward, in a caring and community minded way. When a country is unified by a common concern for resource protection, determined by a common watershed, then we will be less likely to squander our future. North America is an absurd continent, in terms of it's political divisions. It in fact should be about 7 or 8 countries, divided by heights of land and the attendant watersheds thus created. An example would be that the Great Lakes basin inclusive of Michigan, most of Wisconsin about 1/2 of Ontario and NewYork and sections of Minnesota,Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania are intricately bound by the Great Lakes and would work as a country unto itself, instead of the artificial hodgepodge that now exists. It's called Bioregionalism and it relates to drums more than you might think, given that the forest reserves of a bioregion are part of what determines it's uniqueness. I really can't stomach reading that some tarted up drums from Taiwan or whereever are strutted around because they are from Canadian Rock Maple , or Norwegian Birch. Who cares. There should be giant bubble gum machines somewhere to sell such ape**** from. They'd come in an oversized eggshaped two piece plastic luridly coloured case too.

Drum companies are derailed now, as they step all over each other for market share. This little pancake drum , represents part of what is great about truly vintage drums because the ****her you go back , the more bioregional , they become. It is made from European Beech, a wood that is indigenous to the area it was made. The logs were probably sawn at the factory or very nearby. The wrap was made in Speyer, not very far away and it's original heads ,probably came from Russelsheim; also not very far away.

three cents worth, I guess.

Dule, yes-ss! ---sweet nice little Sonor toy !!

But I often think - why the maple syrup is such a fetish ? Well guys, you're all a sweet-tooth here! It seems to me a pancake with salted salmon more sweeter, btw together with some good booze... No ?

Hey, Craig, is not it great? :D

George.

Maybe there wasn't any room for a badge. :eek:

That is a sweet looking snare. Is it wood? If so, how many ply?

-Tim

HA! Anything with good booze is okay with me! :)