Anyone use a "regular" head as snare head....

[Consume]

 

next Q, Anybody tried or know of a "shaker" snare? Tiny beads instead of wires. ?

 

 

 

 

I have made my own snare wires before - I used guitar strings. Years ago, I made a device that held the strings tight and after I soldered them in place to the brackets (and the welds were solid) I clipped off the excess string.

 

It worked pretty well, actually. I never tried it with wrapped strings, just the solid higher pitched strings... I've been wondering how different strings, like bass strings, would work.) I may have to do some experimenting at some point.

[cdawg]

You could use "ball chains" like Dogtags come on for that.

wish we would have thought of that.

[cearleywine]

 

I have made my own snare wires before - I used guitar strings. Years ago, I made a device that held the strings tight and after I soldered them in place to the brackets (and the welds were solid) I clipped off the excess string. It worked pretty well, actually. I never tried it with wrapped strings, just the solid higher pitched strings... I've been wondering how different strings, like bass strings, would work.) I may have to do some experimenting at some point.

 

 

Sounds very similar to Grover wires. I own the jazz brights, kind of an old school sound.

[1001gear]

The idea with beads was no tensile uh, tension. Loosely strung beads of some kind maybe. I like bunjeeing a tambourine to the inside of a snare.

[fusionfunk]

 

The bearing edge is why the snares on the OUTSIDE resonate on the outer surface of the head. If you had snare wires inside, pulled via straps at the bearing edge, the effect would be to pull the snares AWAY from the inner surface of the head.

 

 

Unless you had exterior downward facing offset rollers that you could run the straps around, pulling them in the direction you wanted.

[SYMBOLIC]

How does it work on the marching snares that have a set under the batter head? I've played those snares, but never looked at the snare mechanism on the upper snare wires.