Tama made a number of great snare drums from the late 70's through to the early 1990's. Their Imperialstar "King Beat" snares from the 70's and 80's are especially well known. Heavy steel shells, diecast rims, and a well-designed parallel strainer system. As I mentioned in a post on the Pearl snare drums from that period, a number of manufacturers (e.g. Ludwig with their Supersensitive strainer, Rogers Dynasonics, Pioneer with their Flo-Beam) offered these systems, which are designed to enable much finer adjustment, both "up-down" and "across", of the snares against the snare side head, and to reduce or eliminate "choking" of the snare which occurs when the wires are overtightened. I have 5x14 and 6.5x14 models. Here are some shots of the 5x14 model.
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