SNARE SNARED

Rip It Up, Issue 225, 1 May 1996, Page 9

SNARE SNARED

I am writing to you in the hope you and your readers may be able to help me. At the 1996 Mountain Rock festival, one of the bands I'm in, Bogans, was lucky enough to be selected to play on the Thursday afternoon at approximately 3PM. The gig went well and we had a hell of a good time. Anyway, in the time of packing down and loading up of our equipment, my recently completed snare drum was not to make it back into the van. This was not realised until the unloading of the equipment when we got back home. The thing is, I spent nearly two years rebuilding the drum, which included sanding it back to bare timber by hand, and trying to find all the appropriate parts was a nightmare. I am running out of ideas, and somebody knows where it is. I have had a curse laid on the drum, so if you start feeling really bad while doing a gig somewhere, you now know why! Description: 14-inch Carlton snare drum, six-and-a-half inch depth, with eight-lug configuration. Colour: light Canadian walnut stained timber. Inside of shell painted black. Other: blue webbing holding snare gate on one side, roller action type loading system. Top head is Remo double dot (white), standard Remo bottom.

I am offering a reward for the thing with no questions asked, and I know the drum means more to me than you. I’ll grab it off stage if I see it! Chris Harding, c/- STDC, Private Bag, Hawera; (06)278-8010.