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| Author: | Gregory [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | ALMOST... |
... but I don't need a heavy Designer snare, even one covered in the African stuff. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sonor-Designer- ... 500wt_1413 |
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| Author: | Kelly [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
I'll never understand auctions with a reserve. But anyway...that drum has been on Craigslist for a week. Except there he has it listed as a 6 1/2. He's asking 700 there. |
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| Author: | Gregory [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
Reserves have worked, traditionally, at auctions where people are present, where the excitement of the event and competition between bidders could be depended on to raise the price. A reserve was the failsafe mechanism. An online auction, particularly in this economy, misses all that. I agree with you; when I see a reserve, it does not encourage me to bid. Why not just start the auction at your reserve and see if anyone grabs? Perhaps that wouldn't be sharp enough practice. |
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| Author: | Hookd on Phonics [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
I'll offer $500.00 I don't really have for a drum I don't really need... Didn't really care much for the Fauxbinga Maple Light 8x14 I had... But, I really wanted to try a Maple Heavy!   BrianPS: Just got an early 80's rosewood in and out Phonic. Sold to me as a D516, but I'll need to measure it once it's apart. Looks like a 5.75, but that might be because the snare side head is very, very old! |
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| Author: | Jeff [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
Hookd on Phonics wrote: I'll offer $500.00 I don't really have for a drum I don't really need... Didn't really care much for the Fauxbinga Maple Light 8x14 I had... But, I really wanted to try a Maple Heavy! BrianPS: Just got an early 80's rosewood in and out Phonic. Sold to me as a D516, but I'll need to measure it once it's apart. Looks like a 5.75, but that might be because the snare side head is very, very old! My 515 is just as fat as my 516's. I have finally got my Rosewood in/out 14x8 convo happening, absolutely incredible, I'm in love, but I've been into 8's for over 20yrs. I love the tone of the Rosewood in/out Phonics, hope I like the Makassar Ebony Siggy as much when she arrives  .
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| Author: | Gregory [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
Hookd on Phonics wrote: I'll offer $500.00 I don't really have for a drum I don't really need... Didn't really care much for the Fauxbinga Maple Light 8x14 I had... But, I really wanted to try a Maple Heavy! BrianI should not have said one I don't really need but, rather, one I already have.
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| Author: | Kelly [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
What a lousey place for a seam on that drum. |
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| Author: | Gregory [ Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
Kelly wrote: What a lousey place for a seam on that drum. Very odd. I guess those snare gates are standard, although neither of mine arrived equipped with them. Left over inventory? |
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| Author: | cliff [ Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Planned transitions... |
Kelly, I didn't notice it until you pointed it out, probably because I was not looking at it with a 'buyer's eye', how badly that seam looks.  Greg, I suspect you are correct about the extended gate being a run-out of Signature inventory, and I always wondered whether the Signature change from 12 lug to 10 lug was not both (i) Link era cost reduction, and, (ii) an intermediate step toward creating this inventory run-out opportunity. I do not know if it is original or not; and I can not find any photos of Hilite snares in any catalogs, but the used Hilite snare I bought used last year came with an extended gate. That would seem to further support the idea that Sonor (i) knew they would transition to 10 lugs, (ii) created this 'transition hoop, and, (iii) changed Signatures when the 12's ran out. I have an extended gate on the real bubinga snare that I bought with my Designers that were ordered in October 1998. In May of 2001, I ordered an birch snare which (i) was fauxbinga, an, (ii) did not have the extended gate. Some where in between, the entended gate 10's got used up In October of 1998, I ordered a new 14x14 floor tom, and it arrived in fauxbinga; that sets the transition period as being within that twelve month period. |
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| Author: | Gregory [ Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ALMOST... |
My trubinga bass is stamped 6096 or 9609, 50% chance of getting it right. Others (though not all) are 711 floor 597 floor 973 rack and the new trubinga 8" is 0209. What does all that mean? I can't keep it straight.
I sort of understand what the snare gate is doing on the parallel strainers (although I can't really think of a situation where it's needed), but not what it's doing on any other snare. Just seems like something to get in the way when mounting, foul things up when encasing, and break when not paying enough attention. |
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