Overview: Premier Chrome 14x5 (1960’s)
Status: Used
Description: The 2000 snare drum was introduced by Premier around 1966 with it gaining its debut in the 1968 catalogue. Although Premier had other metal shell snare drums on the market this model became iconic for both its design and its sound. The 2000 features a single spun metal shell, with no bead, plated in Premier’s world famous chrome. The early 2000 snare shells were brass, with the older block style P badge and ‘Beer barrel’ die cast hoops. These brass shell drums are very rare, I’ve only seen one. The shell construction was changed to aluminium quite quickly, and remained staple throughout the 70’s (one can only assume this was a cheaper option for the mass production of a popular snare drum). Die cast hoops remained standard, but with a more streamline design. In the Late 70’s / early 80’s the shells became steel and the tension rods became square rather than slotted.
Condition: The drum is lightly used and well kept and has no problems of any kind. It has marks on the shell and strange engraving (inspect photos carefully) also it has new snare wires and new heads. The drum is in perfect working condition and sounds positively amazing. It is important to know that when you receive this drum it will be detuned completely. This is to protect the instrument during shipping. That being said it is important to tune the drum properly to get the best sounding instrument.
Brand: Premier
Size: 14” x 5”
Shell material: Aluminum
Finish: Chrome
Heads: Brand new Aquarian texture coated on top and classic clear Aquarian on the bottom*
Hoops: Die-cast
Lugs: 8 lug drum
LCD#: P11
*I have a large collection of drums and while most of the new heads have never been played on sometime they have lightly played to tune the drum up. Also I have had local drummers who wanted to buy a snare try it out before buying. Unfortunately they were time wasters and never bought the drum but played the heads a little bit. The point is the heads have never been used or played on at length.