Congrats! You'll love it. $100 sounds like a very fair price...especially for an early '70 version. I see them everywhere from $75 for ones that are all beat up to around $150 for pristine examples.
Today I went after work to a music store. And bought a Ludwig acrolite snare drum from the early 70's. It needs a lot of work like cleaning and new heads on it. I think it will be a fun project and when I get it finished and tuned up it will sound great. Got it for $100.00 I didn't think that was bad at all.
Keep drumming
Gregg
Congrats! You'll love it. $100 sounds like a very fair price...especially for an early '70 version. I see them everywhere from $75 for ones that are all beat up to around $150 for pristine examples.
-Brian
"Too many crappy used drum stuff to list"
Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
$100 is fair , a friend of mine got one at a pawn shop with case for $50 decent shape. A YouTube guy named rdavidr got one at Goodwill for $29 that was in great shape. In my neck of the woods the cheapest I've seen is $129. I'm looking for one myself.
Congrats!
IMO, The acro is the best "bang for the buck" you can get in drumming.
An amazing snare for the price
It's not just a great-bang-for-the-buck snare, it's a just a great snare, regardless of the cost. I had a mid-70's acro that I sold a couple years ago (who needs all those snares, you can only play one at a time right?) that I wish I still had. I want another one.
I'm basically retired from professional drumming but for the occasional special event or favor, and I'm having difficulty resisting the urge to start collecting snare drums. I would have difficulty justifying it. I've had a few over the years, including a mid 60s Supraphonic that was stolen from me. Wish I still had that baby!
At this point I only own my pride and joy Exotic Edge and an acrylic Fibes. (with kit)
I'm thinking a modest collection may still be in the offing... "need" a (few) metal (s) and perhaps a birch et al...
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