The Supra really is the "King of all snare drums" and has also been called the most recorded snare drum in history! It goes without saying that since Ludwig made 1000's of these drums that they would be the most recorded. I have documentation from William F Ludwig II, an actual catalog...
the snare drum did not, as some believe, stem directly from the instruments of the Janissary corps of the Ottoman Empire, though the instrumentation common to those Turkish military bands, which included davuls (double-headed bass drums played on one side with a stick and on the other ...