Larry
"Uncle Larry"
Cruising my local CL and found someone selling a snare drum called....guess...and a website was linked so I decided to check it out. Here they have some patented concentric cutting process where they take a log and all at once cut concentric, different diameter shells from sections of the same log. So solid shell. Solid shell drums always stop me in my tracks so since these are new to me, I thought I'd inquire about them here. Any experience with them?
The Canopus Zelkova would be the same kind of thing I guess being essentially a hollowed out log. But the Zelkova is shaped like a barrel with an arc in the outer vertical profile for strength. Because a straight carved shell can lack strength supposedly. Which is what I think these Heartwood drums may be. Now I know zero about Heartwood drums and am not trying to knock them. Quite the opposite, I want to give them some sunlight. I'm really just trying to open up a discussion, especially with the builders here, if this is true, that straight, hollowed out logs don't make strong shells. Or maybe that's misinformation I picked up along the way. But Canopus seems to think so. The concentric drilling thing is interesting. Some shells would be heartwood and the outer shells would be sapwood. What would that translate to sonically in the form of a drumshell? Hmm. I'll leave it to you guys.
The Canopus Zelkova would be the same kind of thing I guess being essentially a hollowed out log. But the Zelkova is shaped like a barrel with an arc in the outer vertical profile for strength. Because a straight carved shell can lack strength supposedly. Which is what I think these Heartwood drums may be. Now I know zero about Heartwood drums and am not trying to knock them. Quite the opposite, I want to give them some sunlight. I'm really just trying to open up a discussion, especially with the builders here, if this is true, that straight, hollowed out logs don't make strong shells. Or maybe that's misinformation I picked up along the way. But Canopus seems to think so. The concentric drilling thing is interesting. Some shells would be heartwood and the outer shells would be sapwood. What would that translate to sonically in the form of a drumshell? Hmm. I'll leave it to you guys.
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