As some of you may recall, I completed the repair and re-paint of my beloved 1938 15"X8" Duco Leedy Broadway Standard a little while ago. Part of the extremely rare 4-point Standard throw was absent and I have been fruitlessly scouring all the usual places for a replacement since then. I am pleased to say that Mark Cooper came to the rescue and my lovely old Leedy is now 100% completed. I believe that Leedy only made the Standard 4-point throw for a year or two - if that and Mark said he had never seen another of these being sold separately.

I played her for the first time over the weekend and the sound is frankly, phenomenal. I tend to use a higher tuning and the crispness of the of the tone also has a wonderful rich depth, giving the drum an incredible fullness which I've not heard before.

I believe that the shell is single ply maple but I would be very interested to hear from the learned sections of this forum on whether 15" Broadways were common as I've not seen another.