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Is that a stand alone snare or was it part of a series like stage custom, etc.? Care to share the specs like shell thickness, etc.? Can't tell from your pics if it has the detachable snare strainer? Thx!
I believe all these snares were a stand alone series, but I could be wrong. I also have the SD-2340, SD-2355, and SD-4365. This aluminum snare is "in transit" so I don't have my hands on it yet. From what I do know, these drums were MIJ while a lot of Yamaha's production was coming from Taiwan and/or Indonesia.
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Not necessarily. As @harryconway mentioned, it was issued as a stand alone snare, which means it would have never part been part of the RC line, hence the model numbers.
Hard to find a lot of catalog info. on Yamaha. I can go back to 86/87 where the fancy Yamaha snares don't seem to be "proprietary" to the RC line per say ..... but certainly reflect the RC line.
with the non-traditional Yamaha badge I believe were made some time between 2000 - 2010. I'm sure the RC snare line was established well before then. From what I've gathered. These snares also all have a bead that recesses into the shell ..... while the RC models I see all protrude from the shell.
The aluminum SD-3465 is in transit to me right now (coming from Austin, TX.), but I am familiar with the Evans Genera. It's similar to a Powerstroke3, with a built on richie ring. I had one on my Musashi 13x6.5 for quite a while. I've also used Genera Dry, Genera HD and Genera HD Dry on my snares.
Hard to find a lot of catalog info. on Yamaha. I can go back to 86/87 where the fancy Yamaha snares don't seem to be "proprietary" to the RC line per say ..... but certainly reflect the RC line.
Earlier 78 catalog shows snares that pattern the 7000 series, and what Yamaha refers to as the 000 series (I assume those might correspond to the 9000 series).
These snares I seem to be collecting
I'm hoping TheDrummerFromAmsterdam might chime in. He's a wealth of Yamaha info.
Yes. At the bottom of the badge, in the black field. Really hard to read.
The inward bead has been a Yamaha thing for a long time. Just browsing thru Reverb, I found the Mike Bordin Sig., the Roy Haynes Sig., and both the Steve Gadd Sig. Black Aluminum and Nickel Over Brass snares to all have that inward facing bead.