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How do you play your vintage snare? Last viewed: 4 hours ago

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From Purdie Shuffle

Dean - The only thing you need to change out is the clips on the Ludwig. Then you can tune it right up. Worldmax has replacement clips. Save your originals in case you ever sell the drum. I have my mid-20's Black Beauty all set-up to play. Modern heads, a set of vintage Snappy Snares, replacement hoop clips and she's good to go. Hey, what good is a $2000 snare drum if you can't play it!John

Great idea! I will be looking into that.

I was watching some of the New Orleans jazz festival last weekend and noticed Cindy Blackman playing what appeared to be a 20's Black Beauty. Perhaps that's what she did too.

Drum Kits
1965 Ludwig Clubdate Oyster Blue
1966 Ludwig Clubdate Oyster Black
1969 Ludwig BB Blue Oyster Keystone Clubdate
1971 Ludwig BB Black Oyster
Early 60's Camco Oaklawns Champagne Sparkle
Posted on 10 years ago
#11
Posts: 532 Threads: 29

My Vintage snare sequence:

1. Dazzling/Non rational inner impulse Eye Ball

2. Purchase

3. Payment

4. Receiving

5. Admiration

6. Total disassembling

7. Clean - Adjust - Oiling- basically T.L.C.

8. Assembling - Heads changing

9. Tuning

10. Admiration II

11. Testing

12. Play for a randomly period of time

13. To shelf 'till next year probably....

14. Admiration n.....

My only exception was a Preserial Acro- "First Gen" 100 % original (inc. heads) with Aluminum hopps, that I'm afraid to hit!!!!! LoLoLoLo


Ludwig '67 Classic B.D.P.
Ludwig '79 Classic Pro-beat
C. A. F. '72 New Sonic "The Argentinean Ludwig"
A bunch of Ludwig snares..... + Dyna & P.Tone.
and always trying to recover some orphan drums!!
Posted on 10 years ago
#12
Posts: 639 Threads: 28

My vintage snares are players. I have put modern small hardware like tension rods and screws to mount the lugs, butt and throws rather than try to find original hardware. I enjoy playing them and with a little work, if I ever choose to, I can look for the era correct hardware since I have not altered the drum itself.

James

Posted on 10 years ago
#13
Posts: 410 Threads: 14

What James said.

Whatever makes one happy, but at my house, snare drums are kind of bulky to just be knickknacks on a shelf.

My playing policy is that I have one workhorse gigging snare, the Acrolite, and the rest of them are mostly for recording, practicing, and jamming at home.

The Acrolite sounds fantastic, can take more abuse, and is more easily replaceable.

-Erik
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Early '70's Slingerland New Rock #50 in blue agate (20-16-13-12)
Late '50's WFL Swingster/Barrett Deems in black/gold Duco
'70's Slingerland Gene Krupa Sound King COB
early '70's Ludwig Acrolite
'80's Ludwig Rocker II 6 1/2" snare
Rogers Supreme Big "R" hi hat

Posted on 10 years ago
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