Here are an old strainer and last one.

I think that it will be easy to find these on chech or ukrainian drum sites -- there are often placed to sell them.

Amati have only two types system and never had a parallel throw on both of them.

Some of modern strainers have a fixing holes identical last Amati.

Cheers,

George.

Thanks George! Yea the style I'm looking at very closely resembles the old strainer. So I think I'll go with that, and if need be make snare beds. Though I'll see if I can't coax the sweet sound before I do that.

Getting a new mechanism is probably a good idea. The old strainers are a massive pain to set up just right, because you have to tie strings in holes on both ends, which are both movable (throw-off and finer adjustment) and getting the proper position of the strainer is therefore very difficult.

What's interesting is that the newer strainer I want to use is very similar to what they used. But I've installed them before and they've always worked very well. The only slight pain for some might be that you have to tie knots at the ends of each wire in order for them to sit nicely in each side. Easy with standard string, not so easy with the actual wire you get with Puresound snares.