No idea without detailed pictures.

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You got a what? :confused:

[COLOR="DarkRed"]Please post several photos. It's not a brand/name anyone thus far recognizes. Thanks[/COLOR]

Actually, someone posted a chrome Wooding snare a couple of days ago.....http://vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=11705&highlight=wooding+snare

For Wooding think Meazzi.

There is some excellent info on this self same site:

http://www.vintagedrumguide.com/meazzi.html

and more useful stuff:

http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/meazzi/batterie/cristalline.html

A wooden Wooding appears on this page:

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

I just ran some of the info at the Fetishguitars site through Google translate. Despite the odd misfire on the translation, and some words that don't translate (I think chest in this case may be a kick drum, and of course drums as battery/ies). You get some notion of what they were doing, and what happened next:

"The Meazzi Hollywood also produced a battery in transparent fiberglass. Shortly after, this production was destined name Wooding. Meanwhile, the Meazzi had grown, was a record company and was until a few years ago, before the bankruptcy, a company of import and distribution of musical instruments. For some time was devoted little attention to the batteries, and the quality of the sets had been affected, why Caldironi went off the mark left in the hands of his partner. Since then, Hollywood lost its designer, it is not practically exist on the market, even if the brand has continued to exist, and it was rebuilt in the late 80's living with an economic model.

The genius of the Hipercussion Caldironi continued in the second half of the '70s. The Hipercussion became heir of the mechanical solutions of Hollywood. Even for these batteries in fact, the case rested on the trolley. In this case, however, the set was characterized by two other pipes laid horizontally above the chest, and from where media for tom, cymbals and microphones. A rack that rested on the chest.

Was also introduced for the first time, the presence of a second hard hat. L 'Hipercussion continued to build the eardrum with pedal (and Max Roach continued to use one during her relationship with Ludwig). Unfortunately, a series of risky choices, and some trade union problems soon led to the failure of management Caldironi.

In 1981, the company Solan, led by Tino Money, succeeded to the estate of the Caldironi Hipercussion. Money in the construction of his instruments introduced criteria of craftsmanship resulting from the Cremonese violin-making, as the careful selection of woods, the respect of their sound, a long and expensive process of painting. In this way the production was reduced drastically from a quantitative point of view, but was elevated from a qualitative point of view.

Here is the production of the 80s.

Economic models were the 'Export and Junior, made in beech or walnut Tanganyika (the second made of the same timber of the first, but available in several pieces and cart). The Professional line was the Elite, available in sets of five to sixteen pieces, in standard sizes or power (in the boxes measure turbo), mounted on request on the cruise (this is called the rack on the box) and cart, and wood employees are very prestigious. For these models, the manufacturing cycle is particularly challenging (the logs are left to mature for three years), and the quality of raw material (pine, ash, mahogany, oak, cherry, Pennsylvania, American elm, paduk, maple), the polishing performed only buffer and without the use of any color. L 'Elite models also had Special Brazil consisted of snare drum, tympani, and all the steel frame resting on chest, a tom, two wooden timbales, bongos and three Octoban. The Traveler's, was designed so that when disassembled, all the pieces could be placed in the chest. There was a line super-artist builds on request, copies unrepeatable, dated and numbered.

A line that was granted a ten year guarantee, whose drums were made of wood of a same portion of the same tree. Tullio De Piscopo has been an endorser of Hipercussion fact on his first approach with a set of drums is white with two speakers and concert tom. The good news is that the Hipercussion today is still active, so it is very likely that some of the models that I have briefly described are still in production. Some years ago I entered the old store of Solan in Milan (today is via Padova 12, tel 02 2610624), and I remember the passion that Tino had Money to his instruments. I have just two words for me to understand the sound I was looking for a snare, it made me immediately feel a great snare in mahogany. In addition, production has been enhanced with a wink aesthetics; sets can be ordered with a mechanical black or gold. There's no denying the traditional Made in Italy is truly in good hands. "

cheers,

Patrick

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