Models
8 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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Slingerland Radio King
Solid one-ply maple shell, cut from a single plank
Percussion · United States
The Radio King's shell is one piece of steam-bent solid maple rather than laminated plies, and the drum's crack — dry, loud, and quick to decay — is the sound of American swing drumming. It has been reissued repeatedly and copied constantly.
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Premier Royal Ace
The British professional snare of the 1960s
Percussion · United Kingdom
The Royal Ace was Premier's top wood snare, with a thin shell and the company's own strainer, and it is what a great deal of British beat and rock was recorded on before American drums became easy to buy.
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Gretsch Round Badge Snare
Three-ply maple with die-cast hoops
Percussion · United States
The Round Badge era snare pairs the same silver-sealed three-ply shell as the kits with die-cast hoops, giving a dry, focused crack that sits under a cymbal without fighting it.
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Tama Bell Brass
The heaviest snare anyone made on purpose
Percussion · Japan
Tama's bell brass snare used a thick cast bell-bronze shell and weighs enough to be a two-hand lift. It is enormously loud with a long ring, it defined a certain 1980s rock snare sound, and originals now trade for many times their release price.
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Camco Aristocrat
Camco's professional wood snare
Percussion · United States
The Aristocrat was Camco's standard professional snare, a thin maple shell with the company's own strainer, and one of the drums whose reputation kept the brand's name alive after the factory closed.
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Slingerland Artist Model
Three-ply Slingerland snare of the 1960s and 1970s
Percussion · United States
The Artist Model was Slingerland's mainstream professional snare after the solid-shell era: three-ply maple and mahogany with a reinforcement ring, and the company's clam-shell strainer.
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Sonor Signature HLD 590
The Horst Link ferromanganese snare
Percussion · Germany
The HLD 590 is a 14×8 ferromanganese-shelled snare from Sonor's Signature era, heavy enough to be almost unusable at low volume and the reason a generation of engineers asked for "the Sonor". Clean examples trade for multiples of their original price.