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Help ID estate Slingerland snare

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Any help appreciated. Let me know if different pic's are needed.

Posted on 9 years ago
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Any help appreciated. Let me know if different pic's are needed.

Looks like a Radio King snare... and it looks as if someone played with brushes on it going waaaaay back. ...Nice!

Posted on 9 years ago
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That would be a Super Gene Krupa snare with single ply maple shell and part of the Radio King family. It has the clamshell strainer with original arm (often broken). Very nice.

Andrew

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Posted on 9 years ago
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Thank you both, SanityClause and Andrew, that info helps. I put "Super Gene Krupa snare" in a search engine and found this ebay patent listing:

Slingerland's most famous product line is the Radio King series of drums. These drums were introduced in 1935, and remained Slingerland's flagship snare drums and drum sets until 1957, when the Radio King model briefly disappeared from the product line. Between 1960 and 1962, Radio Kings were reintroduced and remain the premier product for the Slingerland Drum Company.

Since the 1958 date stamp is very clear, would I run into any problems listing it as a Radio King and/or Gene Krupa? Or should I simply put the date code in the title?

Posted on 9 years ago
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OK, I did a little more searching and I think that patent verbiage is wrong. At this Slingerland history page it shows this picture with the title 1958 Solid Maple Super Gene Krupa Sparkling Pink Pearl snare. It looks identical to the estate's snare except of course for the color. Thank you for the ID, gentlemen.

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Posted on 9 years ago
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It would be a 1958 Super Gene Krupa,

or 1958 Super Gene Krupa Radio King.....

In '55 the catalog included the words Radio King in the listing....

By '59, it was dropped, but still the same drum.

You wouldn't be incorrect calling it either one, I'm sure...:):)

Kevin
Posted on 9 years ago
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