This is a Premier Royal Ace snare drum in black marine pearl finish, manufactured in England in the mid 1960s. This snare drum came to me in Stonehaven in 2018, as part of a matching kit. I spotted the kit for sale on Facebook Marketplace. The single photograph was blurry and didn’t give much away, […]
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This is a Premier Royal Ace snare drum in red sparkle finish, manufactured in England in the mid 1960s. This is the first snare drum I owned. Bought by my step-father in an auction in Edinburgh in 1994, to add to a similarly-aged Premier drum kit he had acquired as part of a house clearance
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I would highly recommend a restoration to any drummer who has some spare time. The art of dismantling, cleaning and reassembling drums helps us to understand their design and construction on a deeper level and we can gain more respect for the instrument when we put time, care and effort into bringing a drum kit
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