I have a Slingerland snare I bought while in college 13 years ago. It came with a pile of drums and various pieces of junk hardware. The snare needed some parts, it had a broken Ludwig P85 throw, bad heads, etc. I decided it was a future project and chucked it into the closet. About 5 years ago, I decided to try to fix it up. I am not knowledgeable in Slingerland at all, so I bought a zoomatic throw for it on ebay. I came to the conclusion that it needed a zoomatic because all the snares for sale had one. Luckily, the holes drilled in the shell agreed. However, I never got it to operate properly. The zoomatic appears to be from the 70s. I want to get the throw to work correctly so I can use it more often. Right now, the fine control knob does absolutely nothing to change snare tension. Anyway, it has been a shelf dweller since then. I decided to research it a little tonight, since I found the vintage drum guide. It appears to be an early 60s Gene Krupa Sound King 5x14 8 lug. The serial is 69783. Does that make it a 62/63? Off hand, does anybody have a guess what its valued at? btw, I'm gonna keep itlvd

Thank you. I had a suspicion that it was brass a few years ago because it is a heavy drum compared to my supra. I have used it a few times and like it...just gotta fix that strainer. Thanks for pointing out the link to fix it, somehow I missed it while looking over the website. It is in really good condition, aside from the engraving. It must have belonged to a school in it's lifetime. $200-250 is pretty good considering I likely paid $30-50 for it in the lot. Thanks again.

I have a Slingerland snare I bought while in college 13 years ago. It came with a pile of drums and various pieces of junk hardware. The snare needed some parts, it had a broken Ludwig P85 throw, bad heads, etc. I decided it was a future project and chucked it into the closet. About 5 years ago, I decided to try to fix it up. I am not knowledgeable in Slingerland at all, so I bought a zoomatic throw for it on ebay. I came to the conclusion that it needed a zoomatic because all the snares for sale had one. Luckily, the holes drilled in the shell agreed. However, I never got it to operate properly. The zoomatic appears to be from the 70s. I want to get the throw to work correctly so I can use it more often. Right now, the fine control knob does absolutely nothing to change snare tension. Anyway, it has been a shelf dweller since then. I decided to research it a little tonight, since I found the vintage drum guide. It appears to be an early 60s Gene Krupa Sound King 5x14 8 lug. The serial is 69783. Does that make it a 62/63? Off hand, does anybody have a guess what its valued at? btw, I'm gonna keep itlvd