Snare Bed
No, I haven't done a Tom Healy and started sleeping with my instrument. I had a snare bed cut into my new drum shell by old-school drum kit guru Bruce King out in Waterview, Auckland.
The snare bed is a groove on the "snare side" drum rim, which allows the wires to be pressed up against the drum. The concept is explained best at this post on drummagazine.com. I don't really have any experience with this kind of thing, so I decided to have it cut out by a professional.
Bruce King is this really awesome, friendly, knowledgeable dude who's been a drum maker for years. Everyone I ask in Auckland about this project says "ask Bruce". He was genuinely interested in my ideas, and had some great advice. He asked about my playing style and how I wanted the drum to sound, and had the bed cut accordlingly. Awesome!
Bruce King in his amazing workshop.
The snare bed is a groove on the "snare side" drum rim, which allows the wires to be pressed up against the drum. The concept is explained best at this post on drummagazine.com. I don't really have any experience with this kind of thing, so I decided to have it cut out by a professional.
Bruce King is this really awesome, friendly, knowledgeable dude who's been a drum maker for years. Everyone I ask in Auckland about this project says "ask Bruce". He was genuinely interested in my ideas, and had some great advice. He asked about my playing style and how I wanted the drum to sound, and had the bed cut accordlingly. Awesome!
The finished snare bed. Can you see it?
Solid geekery. love it.
ReplyDeleteHad to go and read that article as I had no idea what you were on about.
ReplyDeleteI like the bit at the end "...from 1936... It was important then, and is still important now."
It's amazing the things are are important that I don't know about. Heh.
Bruce is awesome! He does all the repair work (or used to) for RMTC.
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