Just found out, that the wood is birch, which makes me very happy, I am very tired of metal snare drums, and I mean that.

Just found this over here http://www.jedistar.com/jedistar%20drum%20dating_p.htm

Premier Drum Company was founded in 1922 by London drummer Albert Della Porta and drum builder George Smith. At first, they produced kits for wholesalers, who branded them as their own. Name was changed to Premier Percussion in 1984 following a management buyout.

In October 1987, Premier was merged with Yamaha, which owned the Leicester factory until 1992. During this period, Limited was appended to the company name. In 1992, Tony Doughty, who originally arranged the Yamaha merger, took over the company. In February 1995, Premier was sold to the Verity Group of Companies before yet another buyout by a British consortium a few years later. Today, Premier continues to produce drum kits, marching percussion, and symphonic percussion (including timpani and mallet percussion).

In the 2000s, Premier started making drums in Taiwan under the Artists maple and birch series. The Premier series, maple, birch or hydbrid/ gen-x shells are made in England. Distribution in the USA isn't as large as it was in the past. The hardware is made on the same assembly line in Taiwan as Tama's. [Source: wikipedia]

Best tribute site for Premier Drums http://vintprem.moonfruit.com/

more info

http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/premier.html

Example of Premier kit

http://www.vistalites.com/other/Premier.htm

Premier serial numbers

http://www.premier-percussion.com/faq.asp?id=3798

Premier percussion catalog scans

http://www.drumarchive.com/Premier/

Images eBay:

It's been my experience that finding Premier parts can be a major pain in the *** on this side of the Atlantic. And Premier's bankruptcy/liquidation/restructuring/whatever doesn't exactly help the situation.

Just doing a few quick searches, I haven't had much luck locating a Premier drum set dealer in the U.S. who can provide a replacement snare. But conveniently, the same 654 snares that were used on drum set snares with parallel mechanisms were also used on pipe band (as in bagpipe) snares. I found a few pipe band drum dealers who list the part:

http://www.celtworks.com/DrummingSupplies_DrumHeads

http://www.burleypiper.com/Drum_Supplies.html

Thanks Sky, I went over to the sites, and I looked at the 654, and I am not sure that it has the 2 screw holes on the bottom end, at least I could not tell from the picture. Just trying to make sure that is the right one before I send the money.

There are a few Sellers on Ebay that may have parts that you need.

Hi,

I know the wires you need, and on this side of the pond a decent music store called electro music still have some of these wires (to fit the paralell snare mech) and they are premier originals. If these are what you are after, they will post them out to you in the states. www.electromusic.co.uk

bigz out.

Thanks guy's, I will let you know what is up. I just contacted electromusic. So I am waiting for them to get back with me.

I am waiting for www.electromusic.co.uk to e-mail me back, but nothing, I have sent them 2 e-mails, and I have not heard from them.

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Anybody seen those wires up above ?