I, too, have paid more than I thought a drum or component item should cost. I've done this due to the scarcity of that drum or item needed to complete a project. But, two grand for a snare drum that your heirs are probably going to sell off for a couple hundred bucks amuses me in a perverse way.

Joke's on you....I have no heirs......

That makes it even more interesting. What's that old saying? Something like: "You can't take it with you". I don't see any kind of joke in this matter. You have decided that you would pay this much for a drum in this particular wrap.Please enjoy it. Maybe if you rub it like a magic lamp, it will grow another half-inch in shell depth.

We all have our own priorities. For me this was one. I don't much care about money, I care about stuff...and that particular drum was some of the stuff I wanted to own. Of course I hoped I might find one at a garage sale for $50 but with the dawn of the internet and ebay that became much less likely.

Even before that (and I started hunting for such a drum in the 1980s) they were expensive. Back then the rumor was that less than 200 Oyster Black Jazz Festivals had ever been made in total. Of course the source of that rumor was a vintage drum "authority" who had some to sell. Even then people were trying to get $2K out of these drums. Obviously many times that number were made but they are hard to find (or really easy if you have enough money) and RELATIVELY rare compared to OBP drum sets (that sold like crazy but all came with a Supra).

Once I'm gone I really don't care if my $2K drum becomes someone else's $60 find. What will it matter to me? I'll probably try to insure that doesn't happen since my hope is to leave my estate to some sort of animal welfare organization and would hope they can get the maximum $ out of my stuff...but if not, I won't know or care.

Besides I don't think my one $2K snare drum is the real problem, maybe it's the other 200 snare drums or the 45 drum sets that should be the real cause for concern. :)

You have proven to me that we do, indeed, have our own priorities. Five vintage drum sets, a half dozen vintage snare drums, a couple dozen vintage A Zildjians, a lot of mostly-vintage drum hardware are plenty for me. Fortunately, I have a wife and children to sell off my drum stuff if I play the ultimate shuffle beat off of this mortal coil before they do.

I agree as long as each piece has a note attached to value

I have inventoried all of the drums as to asking price and perceived value. This info is in an Internet file and on a thumb drive in a strong box with important documents.

I have not done this for all of the hardware, and may not go to the trouble to do this.

I just sold my collection off , I kit at a time , down to one, but lot of old A’s

And I still have all that old vintage hardware

I would have given the seller $300 or so even though the asking price was $60. Unwritten code of vintage drum buying (?) ... :)