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Snare clearance on max roach snare
I own a Gretsch Progressive Jazz/Max Roach snare and have just fitted a new snare tensioner. I bought a new tensioner in the States, one of the newly...
8 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
I figured I may as well throw in for good measure a pic of my Artist snare, which is a 1965, and has the same lug screws as the 1962 tom!
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Here's the second. No difference really. As you can see BD has same date and same screw heads as hanging tom.
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Now it's only letting me attach one at a time! Here's the first:-
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Bass drum attachments are failing upload. Back soon!
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Good morning, chaps. Today I am attaching two pics showing the assembled rods, lugs & heads on the hanging tom (for Oddball). Please note that the hea...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
OK Chaps. I have now looked and disassembled my floor tom (I'll do the BD later). From the pics you can see that the screws holding the lugs to the sh...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Have started taking off the Slingerland lugs. So far I've only removed some from the top edge of the problem tom. Attached are pics of one of the lugs...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Thank you Mitch & Mark. I'm going to get back here later with some pics of the tuning lugs ... first I need to remove examples from throughout the kit...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Thanks, Mark, for your help. The screws have not loosened and they are properly washered. I have to say, that the screws on Slingerland lugs go throug...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Thanks FFR428. They are Champagne sparkle. I'll definitely take your advice about detuning while not in use till I discover the problem. I doubt if it...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Thank you, vintagemore 2000. I'll take your comments on board. I know that, in the case of snare drums, tuning very high has never caused me any probl...
10 years agoShifting Slingerland lugs
Help! I own and play a 1962 Slingerland kit, with 20/13/16 set-up. I bought the kit in 1999, and a few years later noticed that one of the lugs on the...
10 years agoTrading Gretsch snare
I have a trade I want to make. The pic is of my 1980/81 Gretsch Rosewood snare 14" x 5 1/2". I bought this drum new in late '81, and according to the...
13 years agoLooking to swap Slingerland gear
Hi Michael. Sorry to take so long in answering you. But, sorry, to say I am specifically looking for the sizes, age, wrap and make that I wrote about...
16 years ago