It's a steel shell....Not brass...Mikey

Thanks a lot :)

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I had been assuming that the number of lines on the shell indicated it's composition.The catalog page for your snare has a 2-line shell as steel and a 3 line as brass.You have to remove a lug and check the inside of the hole.

Are You sure?

What about air vent hole. In old Pearl brass snares air vent hole was below this lines on the shell. In my snare is in the centre of the shell...

No,I'm not sure.I only stated what I believed was the way of telling the difference between steel and brass without disassembling the drum.This line of discussion is going nowhere-in 10 minutes the answer could be confirmed.

You're right, but I'm not an owner of this snare. I can buy it from polish ebay-like auction.

Well, the center part of the air-vent hole may have been brass, but it looks like some a$$hole removed it! LoLoLoLo

Good heavens, man, read a book. Steel attracts magnets. Brass doesn't. End of analysis.

Most decent chroming uses an underplate or even two, so it is common to see copper under the chrome on even steel shells.

Typically, it's copper on the steel, which bonds pretty well to steel, then nickel on the copper, which bonds well to the copper. Then there is an almost impossibly thin coating of chrome,which bonds very well to the nickel which just changes the yellow of the nickel to a more blueish cast.When the chrome and nickel wear through, or peel the copper will show.

To save money , all kinds of alternatives have been used to triple chrome plating-----copper on steel then chrome straight on the copper, chrome straight on the steel, nickel, then chrome with no copper interplate. Most of these are relatively unsuccessfull and result in early bubbling, flaking or peeling of the plating. One real improvement is "Bright Nickel" ,which is a bluer nickel alloy( has some Zinc in it , I think) and it can be put directly onto steel , with a result that mimicks chrome very well. I had some done on some terrible Trixon hardware(it had just been developed) in 1968 and it is still good today and looks like chrome. The cost is considerably less than triple chrome plating.