I'm no expert but both look like 3 ply shells. You can look at the "slingerland drums" section under the "vintage drum ID" header above for different years and ply composition.

The Concert King should be a 3 ply shell (at least according to Rob Cook). My guess is maple, poplar, mahogany.

I cant find a Buddy Rich snare drum made in the 60's in Rob Cook's book, but there are two that were produced in the 70's: a piccolo ('70-73; no ply info given) and a 5 ply snare ('76-77). The 5 ply has the TDR strainer and 3 vent holes. 5 ply was maple-poplar-maple-poplar- (mahogany or maple), but had no re-rings. Since yours has the re-rings, I am not sure I am describing the right ply combination to you..sorry!!

James

The one I referred to as Buddy Rich, is the snare drum that cam with a 1969 BR kit...

Ahh ok. What type of strainer does the snare have?

James

It has Zoomatic, with the --I don't know what it's really called - The extended tab snare 'butt plate'

I think it has the 'milk chocolate' paint. I'm really at the lover end of the learning curve, so I appreciate the help!

No problem at all....happy to help :).

I noticed the chocolate milk paint in the picture..dead give-away for late 60's.

It sounds like you have the artist model snare which was produced from '63-79. It is a solid maple shell. Apparently a 10 lug version was released in 1964 and in 1968 "Buddy Rich" was added to the name. So there you have it :). All out of the Rob Cook Slingerland Book.

Nice drum!

James

Wait....

Solid? As in one ply??

Holy cow.

Almost certainly not solid shell with a chocolate milk interior.

To be honest, I don't know if Slingerland painted the interior of their one ply shells or not....hmmm. My call on the Artist Model was made more by process of elimination using the Cook book, so I could definitely be wrong. I apologize if I've pointed you in the wrong direction!

James