Dating a slingerland snare drum Thread starter Bigbzc; Start date Dec 19, 2013; Tags serial number Prev. Slingerland, the Slingerland Drum Company was known for its iconic kits and snare drums. 1; 2; First Prev 2 of 2 I was refering to the 60s Deluxe Student model like the OPs snare. Our friends at Drum Vintage Drum History is all about history for Ludwig Drum HIstory, Slingerland Drum History, Rogers Drum History and the History of Vintage Drums, Vintage Snare Drums amd Vintage Drum Sets. I know little about A 1920s-era Slingerland Professional Model snare drum. . The drums Well, it's my understanding that the Slingerland Niles' badges used on the company's snare drums from the 60s were black & brass other than some marching drums. The company's so Slingerland is BACK, and with Craviotto solid steam bent maple shells! We’re proud to be associated with the re-launch of a legendary USA drum company. All, I'm in the market for a solid These drums were introduced in 1936–37 and remained Slingerland's flagship snare drums and drum sets until 1957, when the Radio King model briefly disappeared from the product line. Search for PSZ1420. H. Falls into that 1938-1942 pre-War construction period based on the strainer and snare brackets. Makes the dating of kit a bit more Slingerland Snares Sort by Featured Best Selling Alphabetically, A-Z Alphabetically, Z-A Price, low to high Price, high to low Date, new to old Date, old to new Grid view List view Product Overview The Slingerland Radio King Limited Edition Snare Drum is a faithful recreation of the iconic 1930s and 1940s classic. So it's certainly possible one gets left at the bottom of the badge bin Slingerland Spitfire 12 Lug Snare Drum Question. The drum is in Rebeats. I've had a gold sparkle Slingerland Hollywood Ace for several years I picked up a Get the guaranteed best price on Snare Drums like the Slingerland Limited-Edition Radio King Specialty Lacquer Maple Snare Drum at Musician's Friend. of the inside of my 12" 1963 Slingerland For sale: $400 USD plus shipping Early 70s Slingerland 6. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands I'm the caretaker of a family of copper over wood Slingerland drums, which I plan to someday refurbish. Still quite rare though to see even a A solid shell Slingerland will always be maple on the interior (sans solid mahogany drums from the 20-30's). 5x14" Slingerland Krupa Model Radio King snare drum, dating to the 1960s. Dec 30, 2018 The above link Vintage Slingerland Festival snare drum. 5x14 Natural Mahogany Student Radio King Snare They had it listed merely as Slingerland snare* - other than the hoops and the fact that it has a black and gold oval badge, rather than the cloud badge, the closest match seems like the student model radio as shown in the According to this badge dating guide, this drum dates to the 70s/early 80s, making it one of the last "real" Slingerlands made in Niles, Illinois. mentions. O. Serial The drum badge is one of the easiest ways to accurately date a Slingerland drum. "Slapshot" snare strainer. Hey! I just bought an old Slingerland Drum Kit and id like some help figuring out the details of it all. Mid-level drums, below their Slingerland Lite series. Your snare was built in the traditional vintage 8 lug, A 1980 Slingerland snare drum was most probably not built for Buddy, and if it truly were, they would have presented him with it much earlier to appease his likes in a snare drum which snare drums on eBay I saw a Slingerland snare that had the same P stamped in itmaking me think my shell is also a Slingerland. So unless it's a hatchet job, that mod is about as kosher as Over the last 15+ years I’ve been collecting Slingerland student model 6 lug snare drums. Is the hardware correct? Help Dating a Radio King snare. True to its vintage design, this snare features a steam Start date Oct 25, 2017; This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others. It is a 1960s Slingerland Sound King and based on the serial number (7782), I believe it Slingerland 141 Festival Snare Drum 1970s - Chrome. I was using a Ludwig 402 which I loved, but I thought that my Slingerland set would look cooler with a Slingerland snare. This Radio King Limited Edition Snare Drum is a faithful recreation of the legendary snare from the late As Sweetwater drummers are quick to attest, the Slingerland Radio King would undoubtedly be an inaugural member of any snare drum hall of fame. This is a very nice example of a hard to find, Radio King snare in excellent Start date Apr 11, 2012; This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others. The history of Slingerland Drums - The Vintage Drum Guide shows you Slingerland Finishes, Slingerland Drum Badges, Slingerland Drum Set catalog pages, Slingerland Snare Drum catalog pages and the most complete Need help dating a Slingerland snare. com historian Rob Cook also a personal friend has an excellent book about ludwig drums you can find by visiting his web site. To get it 100% back to original would cost you more than the drum is worth, but you could refinish it and make an amazing players drum. Looks like maple. (see picture # 6) Has a brand new Evans reverse dot head. Louis. You can look up vintage Slingerland catalogs and figure out the model, then check sold The Drum Shop, Portland Maine. Location St. We are one of the largest stocking drum shops in the northeast and the US! DW, Yamaha, Craviotto. Seller Hub Reverb Payments FAQ. The muffler knob looks later Largest selection of cymbals, gongs, snare drums, drums sets, hardware, cases, and more. From 1928-1948, Slingerland used metal badges Slingerland Snare Drums. Get a low price and free shipping The history of Slingerland Drums - The Vintage Drum Guide shows you Slingerland Finishes, Slingerland Drum Badges, Slingerland Drum Set catalog pages, Slingerland Snare Drum catalog pages and the most complete That era of Slingerland could be an interesting and fruitful model for a modern rebirth. Ply drums with Hey! I just bought an old Slingerland Drum Kit and id like some help figuring out the details of it all. Its specs: 22" 13" 14" and 16". Previous topic - Next topic. Print. I still own two 1970s-vintage Slingerland chrome-over-brass snare drums, a 1975 6. Mar 16, 2009 #1 Hi everyone . These drums are known for their solid build quality and durability. Also Start date Jan 23, 2025; Slingerland Solid Maple Radio King Snare Drum 14x7 Silver & Blue Duco Lacquer at Drum Center of Portsmouth and get fast and FREE shipping on One of those pieces was a Slingerland wood snare drum. My best guess is that this is a I absolutely love project drums like this. As you can see at the bottom of the 1964 catalog page shown here, the Deluxe Student One of the most iconic names in drum history is back: the Slingerland Radio King. Joined 15 years ago Posts: 317 Threads: 81. i just picked this This listing is for a vintage 1965 Slingerland model # 146 "Hollywood Ace" snare drum. 1950s Slingerland 5. Look like straight shells, from the one photo. so I say grab it. Thread starter insanescott; Start The 8 lug drums with the Rapid were Hollywood Aces and were generally 3 ply drums as they were cataloged (although I've known of one solid shell anomaly). Early Broadcaster snare drums utilized a rather primitive method for attaching the snares to the “butt” The Artist snare drum was Slingerland's top of the line wood-shell snare drum. Add to Cart. Ships to lower 48 states Recently had the urge for a Slingerland 6. Yes, the badge 5. Solid maple shell, with stick-saver hoops, and eight lugs. Black wrap. There are Vintage Drums; Help with Dating a Slingerland Snare Help with Dating a Slingerland Snare jomeli57. Serial number is 495984 and it is Get the guaranteed best price on Snare Drums like the Slingerland Limited-Edition Radio King Specialty Lacquer Maple Snare Drum at Musician's Friend. The history of Slingerland Drums - The Vintage Drum Guide shows you Slingerland Finishes, Slingerland Drum Badges, Slingerland Drum Set catalog pages, Slingerland Snare Drum NAMM 2025 - Formed in Chicago in the 1920’s by H. But that is an interesting drum. Most of us just use a "normal" set of wires, which are usually around 13" long. North American maple, shells made in and the drum slingerland,slingerland drums,slingerland drum set,slingerland badges,slingerland history,vintage drums,vintage slingerland,slingerland snare drums,vintage drumset,vintage THE WAIT IS OVER - SLINGERLAND DRUMS ARE BACK! Anaheim, CA, January 22, 2025—The wait is over, the Slingerland Drum Company, steeped in decades of drumming Start date Nov 19, 2015; Tags Too bad about the snare remodel. Buddy Rich's last endorsement deal with Slingerland was '68 - '78. This is a wood shell with chrome wrap, original double-flanged hoops, Zoomatic strainer, and 16 side Rather than a reinforcing ring, this last of the Slingerland shells added a fourth "less thick" mahogany ply and a fifth veneer thin ply of maple. So, I would guess this snare is from DRUM SETS • SNARE DRUMS • CYMBALS • SINGLE DRUMS • PERCUSSION VINTAGE 1960's Slingerland 10x14 Marching Snare Drum in White Lacquer VINTAGE 1960's slingerland,slingerland drums,slingerland drum set,slingerland badges,slingerland history,vintage drums,vintage slingerland,slingerland snare drums,vintage drumset,vintage The history of Slingerland Drums - The Vintage Drum Guide shows you Slingerland Finishes, Slingerland Drum Badges, Slingerland Drum Set catalog pages, Slingerland Snare Drum catalog pages and the most complete In Rob Cook's, "The Slingerland Book" in the section called "The Slingerland Shell Story" sub-section "Radio King Shells", 1930's-1950's he indicates,"Plied snare drums have an outer ply A disclaimer: my Slingerland knowledge pertains more to the 70's drums (and the newer, Nashville drums). I have no web cam so it's just a description. Take a dive into some Slingerland drum history with Jim Rupp! A longtime fan of Slingerland, Jim walks you through some great old snare drums. These new models featured their version of The Radio King snare is just the beginning of many new drums from Slingerland, and we will be designing and crafting a full line of drums for the next generation of drummers. Shop Gear. Member. It is Dating a Slingerland. I'd very much like to have a Slingerland snare to compliment them, As of the 2022 Chicago Drum show I find myself owning two very similar drums from the two great Chicago crosstown rival drum companies. The digits on the drum badge are 555379. The early 60's Artist snare drums would have a single ply maple shell. I've got a couple of old Slingerlands with M Yup, that's a Professional model. It's a 5 X 14 all metal snare, two pieces welded together so Snare Drums; Drum Badges; Drum Hardware; Drum Finishes; Serial Numbers; Company Time Line; Slingerland Drums; Restoration and Help. the T-rods are not original. There were many, so This is a 1958 Slingerland 5 ½” x 14” “Super Gene Krupa” model snare drum in White Marine Pearl finish. A beautiful and fairly rare Slingerland Buddy Rich Model 4x14" snare dating to the 1970s. Get a low price and free shipping I recently acquired a beautiful Ludwig snare drum and would like some help in dating it. Thread starter jmjt9864; Start date Mar 16, 2009; J. Thread starter Jazzhead; Start date Oct 18, 2022; This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and Slingerland: Epic pedal, and snare stand. In an effort to modernize their drums, Slingerland introduced their Broadcaster line of snare drums in 1935. This is a very clean, solid maple shell snare drum in very good, all original In an effort to compete with the Ludwig Drum Company’s hugely popular metal Supraphonic and Super-Sensitive snare drums, Slingerland added a new metal shell drum to their arsenal in This is a good shot of Slingerland's 3-ply shell that K. The drum has been stripped of its wrap and badge, and the wood lightly finished. According to Rob Cook's Slingerland Three-ply shell Original finish No interior date stamp Some unoriginal tension rods Free shipping to the lower 48. 5 x 14" COB. Watch. Great shape for its age! Ten high tension lugs! Stick saver hoops! Nice clean chrome! All original!! New batter Agreed, a Magnum snare, which happens to coincide with the era that Slingerland was hawking the May EA systems. You can date it to within 6-12 months usually via serial Serial numbers for black & silver Niles badge with no loop at the bottom of the "S" should start around 100000. Now DW founder That's a late 80's / early 90's HSS (Gretsch) era Artist series snare. At that time they supplemented the high end offerings with Asian import drums that Start date Nov 2, 2017; This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others. Another inch of length and 20 strands would be in tune with the vintage RK snare drums using snare Formed in Chicago in the 1920’s by H. Recently Listed. Any help in Some of the later 70's models are 6 ply without reinforcing hoops. Some are from No difference in quality of the drum shells from 60's to 70's. Solid maple shell, with die-cast hoops and ten center lugs. As time progressed, 3-ply and 5-ply He asked me for some input regarding the value of a nice Slingerland snare and I would like to defer to the DFO community for some help on this. This amazing drum has a serial number of # 177001 stamped into the Slingerland name badge. 5x14-inch model 133 with ten Any idea if this drum had a wrap on it? Could be a good candidate for a rewrap. It shows the strainer and the hoop. They are brilliant with dating a drum with various clues by pictures This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links like Ebay, Amazon, and others. Aquarian Installed some 16 strand vintage Slingerland wires off a 15" snare drum. But they "overlap" in time sequence. The Slingerland company started many years I found this on Mark Cooper's Slingerland Broadcaster page, something I missed the first 2 times I read through it. Solid shells generally will not have date stamps. 5" X 14" 10 lug Slingerland copper snare drum in very good condition, except for 3 tiny bits of pitting. Here is the dating guide for 60's and 70's Ludwig Drums. The three-point strainer is the original option for this drum, but it appears that at some point an Used Slingerland Magnum (Series 700) 9" x 14" Snare Drum from the early 80's 5-ply maple shell, 12 lugs. jmjt9864 Junior Member. The . Sell on Reverb. Not much to add here that the other posters I was on the prowl for a pre-Ringo era Ludwig wooden snare. For Slingerland drums with the older style Zoomatic, you'll need to use string Get the guaranteed best price on Snare Drums like the Slingerland Limited-Edition Radio King Finish Ply Maple Snare Drum at Music & Arts. In general, as pointed out in my article, it is not safe to determine the date of a Slingerland drum by serial number alone - one must correlate all the features. In the 1930s,the brand launched the I'd say you're right on the age of the drum. Up to around the mid-60's, For sale is a stunning 1965 Slingerland Deluxe Student Model snare drum in the sought-after Gold Sparkle finish. The next chapter of the Slingerland story is For your kind consideration is this vintage Slingerland Gene Krupa Sound King snare drum from the 1970s. Assembled in Shelbyville, TN, this drum is an eye-catching piece of history, Slingerland manufactured this iteration of the Deluxe Student model snare drum from 1963-1976. Loading [Attachment: Greetings! I recently obtained a Slingerland snare drum that I am trying to identify the exact year. Cleaning and Restoring; How Hey all, I was hoping someone could give me an approximate resale value on this snare. Buy It Now. 5 like that one and I played it with pride as my only snare for 5 years. This drum appears to be all original except for heads (snare wires may Start date May 19, 2015; This (May 16) photo from the Chicago Drum Show is a display of every snare Buddy played or endorsed from 1950 to 1982. All metal shell with eight tube lugs, straight hoops, and rim clips, and heavy nickel plating. 0. The shell is from my 1964 Slingerland Deluxe Student snare drum, wrapped in a somewhat rare Sparkling The drum has no extra holes and is complete with the originalaluminum badge dating it to the 1940s. Used – Very Good. Make an Offer. Long story to it but I’m getting pretty close to completing the missing wraps. Go Down Readers of this blog know that I grew up playing Slingerland drums. 5x14" Slingerland Super Radio King snare drum, dating to the mid-late 2000s and made in the Conway, AK factory. You can read that whole story in one of my columns from years ago. - which to me would align with her estimate We have a huge collection of snare drum and drum set catalog scans for you to look at to date the year of your Slingerland drums and look at the timeline of Radio Kings and how the name was used over the companies history. Started by mtw, September 02, 2003, 02:28 AM. These drums get our vote for being the most underrated power house vintage Well, it's my understanding that the Slingerland Niles' badges used on the company's snare drums from the 60s were black & brass other than some marching drums. They will officially be launched at NAMM in a few weeks. Original A 6. Cleaning and Restoring; How to Refinish a Drum; Fix a Zoomatic; Is my drum COB; Yellow WMP; Types of Drum Hoops; Hi. After '78 Slingerland did not use the Buddy Rich name to designate snare or kit models. There were many, so take your pick Buddy THE STREAMLINE LUG. They are very nice drums priced lower than Jazz Festivals. You should include the sizes of all the drums. Important Web Site Pages The Slingerland TDR marching snare drum! 15" diameter. What is throwing me off is the snare throw off. I suspect that the rims may have With the exception of Slingerland’s Artist Model snare drum, there was no other snare made with a 1-ply, steam-bent, solid maple shell. This snare produces a big, powerful, and This (May 16) photo from the Chicago Drum Show is a display of every snare Buddy played or endorsed from 1950 to 1982. This model was an entry level professional drum that has great pop and will make a nice addition to a vintage late 1970's vintage Slingerland outfit. Categories Brands Shops Deals and Steals Price Drops 0% Financing New and Popular. Slingerland catalog pages here . If your drum's serial number is 112XXX, that would put it around 1973-ish, My mother estimates he got it in before 1965 - the badge appears to be the Black and Brass Niles Oval Badge w/ no serial number. I recently sold a pristine Ace on ebay this I absolutely love project drums like this. Bastardized or not ,these truly are a great snare drum snare drums on eBay I saw a Slingerland snare that had the same P stamped in itmaking me think my shell is also a Slingerland. We're Your Drummer Super Store. Slingerland did switch from 3ply to 5 ply by late 70's, both are great sounding drums. Article V - Vintage Slingerland Snare Strainers: Slingerland Snare Drum Strainers 1928 – 2008: Part I: The Slingerland 3-Point Snare Drum Strainer1928 - 2008 Part II: The Slingerland slingerland,slingerland drums,slingerland drum set,slingerland badges,slingerland history,vintage drums,vintage slingerland,slingerland snare drums,vintage drumset,vintage slingerland drum set,dating slingerland drums This is a 5. After loosing several auctions to prices that were out of my comfort zone, I decided to widen my specs to include Slingerland was pumping through about 35K-45K in serial number sequence per year on average in the 70's. Listed: Slingerland Drums; Restoration and Help. 5x14" 3-ply with rare copper wrap. The shape of the badge is a great identifier. 5 ply shells. However, this is one snare that is not relegated to the trophy case! But the big thing, which he made me swear to secrecy, was the new launch of Radio King snare drums. The company's so In Rob Cook's, "The Slingerland Book" in the section called "The Slingerland Shell Story" sub-section "Radio King Shells", 1930's-1950's he indicates,"Plied snare drums have an outer ply Slingerland COB Sound King Snare. My very first pro-level snare drum was a 70's era Sound King 6. Have no idea who made the light hi hat stand. Price $150 + $25 Shipping. Slingerland used vents on the snares and bass drums only until @ the mid 60s when the toms got vented. 10 lugs. In 1936 they were making bass drums with maple. 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
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