Item for sale is a Slingerland muffler that came off a 1965 Sound King snare drum. I found this muffler in an old toolbox. I want to get 25.00 for it and you pay shipping wherever you happen to be located.
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That's later then 65 I think........maybe late 60's-early 70's...
I didn't see those in the catalogs until '69.
It's nice though, whatever year it's from.
I wasn't sure what it was. Someone in a music store said it was a 1965. All I know is the shell this muffler came off of was a brick house. Heavy brass shell. It was the best snare I have ever played. A mechanism problem back in the 80's forced to part with it. Now my cousin up in Charleston, SC has it as I gave it to him many years ago before eBay/Internet.
The Cook book says the first of these post style tone controls was in 1975.I see it in the '76 catalog, but the old hook style in the '73.
Kev, The muffler is what i and other call a tran's muffler.When S/L change them from the hook type to the round knob with rod.They had to used the old style up-{hook's pieces} this is why you see these mufflers like this.You see an extra hole on the body that was for the hook end.The ones that had the rod/knob the muffler does have the rounded part for the nut to rest in.The hook style was flat at that point....Mikey
