Snare Drums For Sale: Used and Vintage Snare Drums: Ludwig Snare, Gretsch Drums, Pearl Snare Drums

• Bells and Snare Drum For Sale
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• Pearl Joey Jordison Signature Snare Drum For Sale
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• Pearl Chad Smith Signature Series Snare Drum For Sale
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Snare Drum

The snare drum is a drum with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the resonant drumhead. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom (internal) side of the top (batter) head to make a "brighter" sound, and the Brazillian caixa commonly has snares on the top of the upper drumhead. The snare drum is considered one of the most important drums of the drum kit.

Today in popular music, especially with rock drum kits, the snare drum is typically used to play a backbeat. The snare is sometimes played with brushes as well as with drumsticks.

Most snare drums are constructed in plies that are heat and compression molded into a cylinder. Steam-bent shells consist of one ply of wood that is gradually rounded into a cylinder and glued at one seam. Reinforcement/tone hoops are generally needed on the inside surface of the drum to keep it perfectly round. Segment shells are made of multiple stacks of segmented wood rings. The segments are glued together and rounded out by a lathe. Similarly, stave shells are constructed of vertically glued pieces of wood into a cylinder (much like a barrel) that is also rounded out by a lathe. Solid shells are constructed of one solid piece of hollowed wood.

Vintage snare drums are becoming increasingly popular. This is due to the tone of the drum becoming warmer as the wood ages.