musicbybj
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
One of our members, Glynes, outbid me on a Banner in a blue/silver/blue duco. They are really neat little six luggers.
Jack
--- "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" Les Brown
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6/21/2007, 4:03 pm
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IsaacHeath
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
I have seen at least one other on eBay. Never in person though.
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6/22/2007, 12:54 pm
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drumgrrl
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
Gee i didnt know they were so hard to find?.. My second nervous ebay snare purchase (even scarier early days) was one of these. Excatly like the pic.same color , parts were in good condition but needed agood service/clean etc and it is without original heads. Thats the good news.. I paid a little more for mine around 100 US. but thats not the bad news.... here it is
the seller couldnt ship to to Australia. So i had it shipped to my best friend in Seattle and she shipped it to me. But the bad news was......she had a buddy who had her own business so got a "discount" rate through her to have it shipped. she emails me and says gee i hope that snare was a valuable one as the postage jsut cost $170 US!!!!! (shed sent it b4 checking with me but i dont blame her, she just thought that was the best rate) well when i picked myself up off the floor and the color came back into my face.... I emaield her and sais gee waht happended?... instead of jsut getting a usps economy airmial rate(well it was a few years ago now its impossible with the new usps system) her buddy had a courier service she used so that snare ended up costing me nearly $500 AUS.... a big lesson there and lived on water for the next few months haha but i love the drum regardless...... anyway thats just a story i had........ any more stories out there?......
anyone awake yet? i jsut realised with the time difference im probably tlking to myself right now hahaha
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7/13/2007, 1:44 am
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tommykat1
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
Drumgrrl, you are hilarious. Hundred bucks for the drum, 200 bucks for the freight. Oh well...
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7/14/2007, 2:22 am
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snuffyny
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
Tommykat & Drumgrrl,
Might be able to go you one better in the annals of shipping stories.
Back when I was beginning to play again... and before I knew a thing about all the new drums and equipment that have come along in the last 30 years, I bought a snare from China. It was a nice looking, dark green laquered, ten lug, maple snare. Won the bid at 39 USD... then got caught by a 150 GBP shipping cost from Beijing to here! That "very fine" instrument ended up costing me near $300 actually. It was an OK drum, but only just and it now resides with the one grandaughter who says she wants to learn to play. She's 9, and I don't think she practices much at all... though she says she does.
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To graces gone with time."
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7/16/2007, 4:58 am
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tommykat1
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
Hey, Snuffy, it's so funny how we tend to create an image in our minds of each other. By your avatar and posts, you're a hip cat looking for a serious gig.
Then we find out you're a grandad! Way cool, brother! Grampa's lookin' for work!!!!
Me, in one of my earlier posts in a pic from 1979, I have long dark hair and a beard. No more hair. No more beard, and what does grow is gray!
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7/16/2007, 5:22 pm
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snuffyny
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Tommykat,
Yep, I'm a grandfather... with 8 grandkids. Love em all... but some more than others. The girl who has the drum, together with her sister, have me pretty much wrapped around their little fingers. They both are dancers... but her older sister is much better and I think the younger one wanted to try the drum just to be different. I wouldn't let her parents buy her a complete kit... not until she shows progress on the snare. I'd warned her that learning to play a drum is BORING... many hours banging away on the practice pad, learning rudiments but she insisted that she wanted to be like me.
Her older sister thinks it's "so cool" that she can tell her friends and classmates that her grandfather is a rock drummer(??). Me... I'm just glad that somebody in the family has some interest in music.
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To graces gone with time."
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7/17/2007, 4:17 am
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tommykat1
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Re: Banner Snare on ebay
Snuffy, so true, so true. Neither of my teenage kids is into playing. My daughter was forced to take piano lessons by my wife. that did it for her, although she was prety good. But she hated being forced.
I think it will be awhile before any grandkits show up. At least ones I know about...
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7/17/2007, 7:35 pm
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