Monday 13 January 2014

Up-close & Personal: Dixon Artisan 14"x5.5" Bird Eye Maple + Bubinga Snare Drum

Another Dixon's Sound Choice's Artisan Snare, with a hybrid of woods: Bird eye Maple & Bubinga.

Bird Eye Maple is a type of wood best described as Hard Maple and it is a very expensive wood, up to several times cost of an ordinary hardwood. With Bubinga wood, another hard tropical timber, predominantly straight interlocking grain that widely chosen for its distinctive good looks as well as it brighter response. Yet due to its density, Bubinga maintains balanced resonance throughout all ranges of tuning and has an underlying richness and depth of tone that makes it a popular choice!

This Dixon Artisan Bird Eye Maple & Bubinga Snare Drum is a combination of both rare, expensive and a great tone of wood, let's take a close view on the snare drum:

The combination of Bird Eye Maple & Bubinga 14" x 5.5"

Tube Lugs with Amber Burst finishing

The ever reliable Dixon hardware's snare strainer

With Evans G1 coated batter drumhead 

7-ply combination of Bird Eye Maple and Bubinga Wood
Model No: PDSAR544TBB
Size: 5.5"x14"
Shell: 7-ply Bird Eye Maple & Bubinga
Shell Finish: Amber Burst
Batter Side Head: EVANS G1 coated
Resonant Side Head: EVANS SS Clear
Hoops: 2.3mm Power Hoops
Lugs x PCs: PDTL-6TB X 10
Hardware Finish: Chrome

Let's hear it out now!

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