Designed by The Early Music Shop of Bradford England. This cylindrical
drum has two heads, one with a snare. When the drumhead is struck with
the drumsticks, the snare adds a vibration or rattle to the drum's din.
The Renaissance style drums have a tension rim holding the skin head and
the snare is on the bottom head.
This style of drum is a traditional military drum with a long history.
They were used to mark time for marching or to signal during
confrontations. In England during Renaissance, side drums like this were
known as a tabor. The shallow tabor, associated with the American war
of independence, is sometimes called a tom-tom. In France, during the
18th century, they were known as tambours or tabret and were well
associated with the political resistance and rebellion against the
French monarchy. As a military instrument this drum was often used in
combination with a wooden or metal pipe. One individual, as in a
one-man-band, played both instruments. The 3-hole pipe was held and
played with one hand, while the other hand held the drumstick and played
the tabor that hung from the wrist, shoulder or arm. Such snare drums
were used in military bands until the 19th century, when it became an
orchestral instrument.
Today this style of snare drum is used in parades and processions.
Originally such drums were fashioned from solid timber making them quite
heavy. These modern replicas are fashioned from attractive half-inch
laminates for strength and lightness of weight and feature mulberry top
and bottom rings.
Each drum comes with 2 drumsticks. There are brass hooks to help suspend the drum from your belt or strap while playing.
