Yeah, I definitely hear good things. It looks like this idea is gonna be pushed off even further into the future, as my guitarist just quit his other band - which means there will no longer be a kit in his practice space, which means I am going to have to buy a new set of hardware in order to maintain a set at home and at the practice space.

It's still gonna happen. It's just going to be put off (even longer than it already was)

I have a Premier 35 for sale in good condition...

The Premier 2000 is truly a beautiful drum. I played mine for quite awhile and preferred it to a Supra. It sounded just a little tighter and crisper.

the strainer too was a work of art!Clapping Happy2

Kelly

so, for various reasons, I ended up taking stabs at a couple different Premier snares online (Gautier, sorry I didn't see your post above, didn't end up logging in here for a while), and got I think decent prices for each, and am in love with both, even the one that in one sense was a "gamble and loss" situation. I'm gonna have to sell my acro, and a cymbal because of these impulse purchases - but hey.

The first was on Reverb, and looked like a pretty standard 1005, but I was intrigued by the fact that it had the higher end die-cast hoops on it, and so I said what the hell. Magnet test verified that it was steel, but it turns out I love the sound. Both with the Fiberskyn Diplomat that I stuck on it when it arrived because that's what I had around and with the Aquarian coated 2 ply that I put on it for the band.

in fact I loved it so much that when what I understood to be a 35 came up on Ebay last week for what I think was a decent price (it was definitely a good price compared to a Supra in the same condition!) I jumped on it too! I feel like I am sated for the time being, though I'm sure an aluminum hi-fi will be in my future at some point. I'm definitely sold on how great a drum Premier was making!

I still have a premier 2000..Just got a BDP 14x4 royal ace..5.5x14mahogany duroplastic royal ace plus the 1930's dominion ace. All the premier snares i have and have used have been great. The 35 and 36 are two great metal snare drums both chrome over aluminium. Although thats the 70's model i believe they changed in the 80's to chrome over metal.

Gonna bring this thread back to life to give props to Premier drums and to recommend a Premier Snare drum to KCMCC if he still hasn't scored one as yet.

I have a 2000 (aluminum high end snare 1975) and a 1005 (entry level steel snare from about 1981) and love them both.

But if I were in the market for a snare drum today it would have to be a Hi-Fi. It's basically a 2000 but with a conventional wire set-up. It should make for a lot less of a headache when it comes time to replace those wires. This is especially important if you're 20 or 30 years old and you're planning on keeping it for a while.

In any case, it's hard to go wrong with Premier as they really didn't make any junk. Even their entry level stuff (up until the 80s and 90s at least) were quality.

Peedy

mea culpa - I own a 1990 XPK 5-pc kit