Dear MIJ "extremists",
Your help is highly appreciated to date and place this no name MIJ snare.
Unfortunately, it has to go. But it sounds really great and loud. Tunes very well. Articulates perfectly.
Was very surprised with the no-nonsense strainer. Is the first throw-off that I really trust. Looks very well unbreakable, even under tension.
Any clue on the background????
Thanks Wouter
Mr. Jonnistix should chime in shortly...
Cheers
This looks like a TAMA snare. The lugs and strainer are the keys to this one. No badge does not always mean junk. Sometimes the badges are just ripped off. Sometimes people purposely remove them, although I can't for the life of me imagine why. That is not to say that crap is not crap, but that sometimes people know not what they truly have.
It looks like a Luxor snare drum.I had a couple of them,metal 10 luger and wood 6 luger.The lugs are Rogers copy and the name is taken from Rogers model of snare drum...
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It looks like a Luxor snare drum.I had a couple of them,metal 10 luger and wood 6 luger.The lugs are Rogers copy and the name is taken from Rogers model of snare drum...
This is another stencil, however, the lugs are one of the early TAMA snare designs as well as a copy of Rogers. Just another way to gig the American drum companies, and it was on Rogers' last legs.
Sorry to disagree, jonnistix, but Dule's - and Wouter's - pics do not (!) show a Star or one of it's stencil brands.
Both are Luxor ('Professional'), and these come from the 'Hoshino' ('Professional') line - and not STAR/ Tama.
The snare lugs are similar to Star's KingBeat - but not identical. Below please find a pic of one of my KingBeat's snare drums. It is slightly different: the top at the Star is a little bit more slim and the bottom is slightly hexagonal, while the Luxor one is rectangular.
Both, Star and Hoshino, used to copy Rodgers with their lugs, but each one with differing lugs.
Ralf
Those lugs (TAMA)are a pretty close fit to my "Frankenstein" snare of earlier posts. They are not like the lugs in the last post at all unless the photo angle and light are confusing me.
Well, the lugs at your Frankenstein snare are in between:
top of the lugs: identical with my Star's KingBeat,
but the bottom line has rectangular shape, not hexagonal.
Another pic (of the 1974's catalogue, after the turn into Tama)
of my lug type:
http://www.tamadrum.co.jp/anniversary/expansion.php?cat_id=12&now=3
So your Frankenstein has NO Star/Tama lugs.
Ralf
Wow, thank you all for the details and the comments on the details!
It still is a good sounding snare, whatever its origin.
Does any of you prehaps know why we don't see such throw-off strainer anymore? They look highly reliable and unbreakable to me, whereas conventional ones could break under high tension. Is there any technical reason for this of is it just fashion and "copied" fashion?
Wouter
