I read with interest your article on the Buescher True-Tone Snare Drum.I am attaching a couple of photographs of an old snare drum that I thought might interest you. The skins are almost certainly animal skins, and the snare wires are wire wound around silk. The clamps appear to be nickel plated and are free floating, not connected in any way to the main shell.

There are no discernible markings anywhere on the drum. I’m guessing from the construction and the material used for the snare wires and looking at other drums of similar construction that it is probably from sometime between 1910 and 1940..

It has a lovely tone without the snare wires tensioned, and quite a soft snare when they are drawn up to the bottom skin.

I wonder if you would have any better idea of what age it is and who might have made it?

Regards

Nigel Kirby - U.K.