Hi,
This is an old (I believe: rare) marching snare drum from Holland, found in a barn full of lots of nearly everything. It's a VAN DER GLAS in 14" x 9". Stamped 'VDG' inside of both hoops. WMP with a red metallic stripe on it. According the manufacturing company (which still is producing marching snares under the brand name 'Majestic') it is from the 70s/80s.
Extremly light and thin (3.5 mm!) shell. You can't do bearing edges on it. So the constructor's idea was, to add a separate plastic ring onto both edges. These plastic rings have round shape. They are just pressed into the shell - and done! The reso side even has a snare bed.
It appears that the designing engineer made a mistake: the parallel action is working ... but there was no bar inside of the shell to compensate the pressure from the wires. So the shell got dents to the inside on both sides of the turning rod.
I now have placed a second bar parallel to the turning rod additionally, so the shell is all round again.
Batter head: still the original one, reso head: a new Remo Diplomat Snare.
Little mystery with the damper knob: that's a STAR one, I believe for sure. (Comment from the producer on that: it's original, not built in afterwards ...!)
Sound: a little shabby with lots of ringing, but with a deep punch (no surprise).
Ralf
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