Yes and no..Looks like your snare is a pre-Tama snare made by Star witch turn into Tama in the 70's...Mikey

One touch tone control muffler: yes, looks like Star.

Lugs: no (but did Tama use these lugs at early snare drums? I don't think so).

Snare strainer: hardly to recognize from the pic. But definitely not the one from Star, which looks different. A close-up pic from the side would help.

Ralf

Yes Ralf, After looking at the catalogs i have.Looking at the photo the muffler one touch piece Star would have lines on the back piece this one does not..I can't tell by the photo on the strainer a better photo would help..Could this drum be a copy made in the 80's ? M.I.T.?? Mikey

Someone down at DFO suggested a CB 700, but it isn't even close.

I have 2 seventies Tama's with that tone control, but nothing else matches...

It's pretty cheap, and parallel strainer snares don't tend to be junk so I'm interested...

Cheers

Simo

Mikey777: Please tell me: How can you state that this muffler's knob doesn't have the small grooves/ lines on it's backside :confused:

But you're right: if the knob is there as blank as on it's top, it's definitely NOT the genuine Star/ Tama 'One touch tone control knob'.

Something makes me think this is a NewSound model ...

Ralf

I think it is an ASAMA - look at this:

http://www.gratisimage.dk/share.php?id=8DB5_4DCDA838

I THINK it is the same damper, and the parallelstrainer is also a close copy of Tama, but not identical.

Is ASAMA a Hoshino-brand?

Regards

Jon

Well, I can't say what it is either... so I guess the question is, what's the price? If it's reasonable, it may well be worth a "gamble!"

Bill

either a knockoff SuperSensitive or a knockoff shell with a SuperSensitive setup attached

like Bill above says, might be worth a look if its not too expensive

SS mechanism, for reference:

http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48406

These bootleg super-sensitive snares are interesting.I own a Percussion-Plus version,which is a Tama copy.6 1/2X14 ten lug,with the quick releases for ease of head changing(?).The drum came with a set I purchased for resale,and it had a batter head on the bottom,making it sound BAD.2 new heads and a thorough going-thru produced a quite acceptable drum-not super boxy like many S-S drums.The Gretch Blackhawk version was very common in the 80's,with Rogers "chubby"lugs.They were also Tama copies,not like this thread's drum with the Ludwig style "tip"mechanism.

I like the drum-It's on my Tama Superstar practice set now.I guess the only sticking point on these is the mechanisms sticking out so far,you may need to turn the drum to play it on a set.