Models
Every model, most significant first.
5 models
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Leedy Broadway Standard
Pre-war American professional snare
Percussion · United States
The Broadway Standard was Leedy's professional snare through the 1920s and 1930s, and its mechanical strainer designs are the ancestors of most of what followed.
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Rogers Dyna-Sonic
The snare with a floating snare frame
Percussion · United States
The Dyna-Sonic suspends its snare wires in a separate frame that touches the head under controlled tension rather than being pulled across it, which gives an unusually even response at low volume. It is one of the few genuinely original snare designs of the twentieth century.
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A&F Raw Brass Snare
Unplated rolled brass, left to patina
Percussion · United States
A&F's raw brass snares ship unlacquered so the shell darkens with handling, and the drums are built with single-flange hoops and minimal hardware. They are as much objects as instruments, which is the point.
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Ludwig Black Beauty
Seamless brass snare drum family
Percussion · United States
Ludwig's iconic Black Beauty snare drum family, built from a single seamless sheet of brass hydroformed into a beaded shell with black-nickel plating, prized for a warm, powerful, focused tone with strong projection.
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A&F Pancake Snare
A very shallow auxiliary snare
Percussion · United States
The Pancake is a shallow snare — often under two inches deep — designed to sit beside a main drum for a high, sharp accent, and it turned into one of A&F's most copied formats.