Hello! I'm Jan from The Netherlands, new here :-)
I am offered a vintage Yamaha snare with type number: SD-065MB. The fact is that I can not find any info on the 'MB' part of the type number. I do see the 'MD' and the 'MA' when I google it, but the MB does not seem to be very common i guess... Could anyone perhaps help me out on this one?
I am wondering if it is indeed a Recording Custom snare (as this is what I have been told).
Thanks!
It is indeed a Recording Custom, 9000 series, late 1970s or early 1980s (I think those were produced in between 1978-83). It's Yamaha's version of a Super Sensitive, with a parallel mechanism for the wires.
Very nice drum :)
Yet this has to taken a bit in perspective.
Its a Recording Custom as that it was marketed as a the same high end drum as the RC series (including the same badge and lugs as the wooden models) its still a steel snare, whereas models like the SD075 for instances also featured the same birch shell and models like the SD980 even shared the same high tension lugs as the RC kits.
A great snare nonetheless.
Seamless steel. Great drum.
I am on the hunt for a black 5-1/4 birch shell. But I'd take a steel one! They crack!
Like this one jim?
https://reverb.com/uk/item/619844-yamaha-snare-drum-sd-075-1980-black-walnut-5-5x14
