Wow! That's cool, Mike. What a strange one! What does the inside look like? Can you explain anything about the idea behind that snare mechanism? What is that last picture? It looks like a latch or something.

How does it sound?

Hi O-Lugs,

The interior is normal, hard to see everything through the grommet/air hole as the heads are not transparent...the drum is concave-like...the last photo is of the bower drum key.

Mike Curotto

Contact Lee Vinson about this. As you know, he LOVES and owns many Bower drums.

HAHA! What do you mean, I only have five of 'em!

I think I might have been the one who contacted Mike a while back actually. I have a similar drum but it's missing a lot of parts. The snare system on mine is positively whack.

-Lee

There you go again, showing me something that I have never seen before - Thanks!

That is one wild, odd looking instrument! American made I presume? Looks a little like a wheel rim on a vintage car!

extraordinary!

Mike your really drawing out the addict in me. Maybe something that old and far out will be my fix and i could stop thinking about more drums. as alway's mike great drum.

So, this must surely be the first "Dyna-Sonic" type strainer assembly ??, or was this idea used by other drum makers too??..

Cheers