I don't play vintage snare drums because I set them up as they would have been set up 80-100 years ago, to wit, calf heads, gut/silk-wound/Snappi snares and all original hardware so the sound of those drums in this set up are not the modern sound that I prefer....of my 650 snare drums I have 60 modern day snare drums (Craviotto, Dunnett, D'Amico, Ludwig etc.) that I use in my drum studio all of the time.

Mike Curotto

Still though...it would be nice to hear/see someone with really great technique play a selection of those vintage drums just for historical purposes. Not that many people play drums set up like that anymore, but there are also a lot of people who have never heard what those drums sound like because they've only been exposed to modern sounding drums.