Yes...definitely from the MusicYo era! As memory serves, I do believe it was a copper shell and not copper clad.

-Mark

Thank you Mark! From a lot of what I've read, the Music Yo era snares get a lot of "bad press". I mean, not a lot of people seem to like them. I wonder why that is?? I can tell you, this "Yo" snare is probably the best snare I've ever owned..sounds and looks phenomenal...

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Actually, all those "Yo" Slingerland snare drums represented excellent value for the money! I've seen them selling on eBay for quite a bit more than the original prices! Attached is a picture of the 4x14 brass shell snare drum I had some years ago. It was a great snare drum!

-Mark

Thanks again Mark. That is a beautiful drum! They did make them nice! I paid $250.00 shipped, which may have been a little more than it's worth, but I was after a copper color snare. Have a blessed day!

Easy enough to check for copper clad steel. A magnet will stick to ferrous metals like steel. If the magnet does not stick it proves the shell is a non-ferrous metal but it does not prove that it is all copper. It could be copper clad aluminum for example. Let us know what you find.

Interesting theory. I just don't think they would have used any aluminum shells. I believe they used actual steel, brass and copper shells for these drums. Being made in Taiwan, manufacturing costs were low and the savings passed on to the consumer.

-Mark

I'm with you Mark, sorry if I was unclear. I do not know what materials were actually used on this era drum. My post was only about what can and cannot be concluded from a magnet test. I was not stating the actual make up of these drums. Hopefully the edit is more clear. Being made in Taiwan makes everything more suspect.

Take off a lug and scrape the inside of one of the holes, I think you'll find that the shell is copper. I've owned two of the 6.5 x 14 version of these drums and liked them both very much.