Mike7- Thank you for the ID on the rope-tension snare slides. That mystery was particular nagging me. Whew! Also, I measures the kick drum while the hoops were on, and it looked like 28" to me. But that fact the would've expected 27-1/2 inches makes me want to remove the hoops and re-measure to verify -- it could possibly measure out to 27-1/2 w/o the hoops.
ludwig-dude: Thank you for generously offering the snare clip to me. This is such great community!! I should be fine with the clip OldSchool send me -- but wow! It's totally cool the folks here help each other out.
Regarding the snare drum -- the logo is right next to the strainer (this would be your left when looking at the strainer). So the logo and the strainer both are placed between the same two lugs, i.e. "lug, logo, strainer, lug".
You can also see the vent hole in this pic. It is midway between the first and middle lugs of the three facing the you in the pic. So ignoring the three lugs that are on the far half of the drum in this picture, from left to right its lug, vent hole, lug, logo, strainer, lug. I hope I'm making sense with this description.
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vmore --I have: the triangle, the castanet, the comb-like cymbal mount, the pedal, the Ludwig snare drum stand, and a tube-shaped wood block w/holder. I witnessed the chinese tom and the tamborine but failed to acquire them. I saw no cymbals at all at the sale.
OK. This is a blast BTW! Thank you guys for all of the info you are offering! This might throw a monkey wrench in -- but there was one drum at the sale that was not for sale (no reason given). It looked like a wood snare drum with rope tension system, and the coloring was similar to the kick drum. I did not get to look at it closely at all, but it was probably a Ludwig. Perhaps thart was the original snare drum to the kit, and my snare drum was an add-on.
Does anyone know the logo timeline? I'm wondering how the paper label in the kick times out with the engraved logo on the snare. Also - there were two small marching snare music books inside the case (which is a couple of inches wider than the drum -- too wide actually, but depth of case is correct). On the inside covers is written (omitted here>, Masonic Band, Atlantic City N.J. 1930.
