I am new to this forum and have joined to try to find out a bit more about a few vintage drums I have acquired over the years. (I play trombone in several bands but have an interest in other old instruments.)
Can anyone offer any info / comment on a 28 inch x 9 inch Premier bass drum I recently got? It was being thrown into a rubbish bin by relatives of a recently deceased neighbour whose home was being cleared.
I have dismantled and sanded and re-varnished the hoops. I have also sprayed the hooks in gold. Other work was just cleaning and polishing. I have no idea about its history, other than seeing drums like it on a website that suggests it is from the 1930s
Photos show the overall drum (calf skins both sides), the lugs and tensioning arrangement, and the Premier badge.