Thank you royal ace and blairndrums.Royal ace,that snare is beautyyyy...Here in Serbia you can find some older European wood snare drums from 60-es,Premier and Sonor,and quite a number of metal Us snare drums,but US wood shells are very rare.I have chance to see lot of Ludwig drums from 60-es but they are always with Supra or Supersensitive,never with Jazz festival,or some other wood snare.Probably those were most popular configurations 22-12-13-16 with metal snare
Dule,
I have a small collection of vintage snare drums, including three Radio Kings, two Leedy & Ludwigs, and three RB Gretsch, but the drums I really treasure and play most, aside from a 1947 6.5 Gretsch Broadcaster, are a Sonor, a Premier and a Le Soprano.
The only metal shelled drum in my collection is a Premier 2000 and I am not motivated in the slightest to own any other metal drums.
I recently bought an Acro at a bargain price just to see what all the 'worship' was about. I tuned it to my liking and played it for a few days, then traded it to a friend for a cymbal because I realized that , though it's a decent, well made drum and a great bargain, it would be the last drum from my collection I would choose to play.
Now, the last drums I would part with are my Sonor D516 Phonic re-issue... my alternate favorites being a 14x5.5 Premier Royal ace, which is the earlier version of your 2001, and a Le Soprano 'New Vintage Maple'.
Ron