I've had a few of the MIJ 6 luggers. Still have an early Pearl actually. With the right heads and tuning they sound nice to my ears. Great vintage sound.

Mike

Thanks for the reply Mike. I once owned a Decca snare drum with

re-rings and put a Remo Fiberskyn head on it. It sounded amazing ! But i can't remember if it was a 6 or 8 lug.. Do you think it would be versatile enough for my acoustic classic rock, pop, RnB, funk and top 40 band ?

6 luggers are tough...Not a big tuning range and you end up giving it a couple of turns of the key before your set is over.

I have found if you use the nylon tension rod washers they tend to hold their tune a bit longer. The MIJ snares always had really cool looking wraps, that's why I have collected about 20 of them. Mike is right, tough to tune but with work they sound good to me also.

I have a nice MIJ snare drum collection, with quite a few of them 6-luggers. As others have already stated, with the right heads and tuning, they can sound very good. A nice example is my 60's Crown snare drum. The Evan's Level-360 heads fit great and the coated G1 sounds excellent even with the original snare wires!

-Mark

I've owned many American and MIJ/MIT 6 lug snares. Personally I can't get them to sound right. Too mooshy or WAY too many ugly overtones when tuned up to medium tension, which is pretty much as tight as they can go. 8 seems to be just right.

Rob,

I've had Raven snares....mostly junk...

Look for an 8 lug snare..

6 lug mij are very limited.

U will have to do a lot of wrk & spend $$...

On wires,skins,...redo edges..wax edges, stain the inside..etcetc.