HHG Drums 14x7 Etimoe, Cedar, And Maple Snare, Semi Gloss Lacquer

After years of building Stave and segmented drums. We wanted to try our hand and plywood shells. This drum features a 10 ply shell made from Maple, curly EtimoÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂé, and Cedar.

Maple is a relatively hard species, Cedar is very soft, and EtimoÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂé ( an exotic South American species) is the hardest species in the mix.

Our Hope with this blend of species was to achieve a very balanced and warm tone That Remains articulate throughout its tuning range.

This drum features chrome over brass tube lugs, a Trick strainer, 42 strand snare wires, diecast air vent, 2.3 mm triple flanged hoops, and is topped off with a beautiful antique silver diecast HHG badge.

The shell has double 45 degree bearing edges that have been hand sanded to a round Apex to allow for a buttery, warm tone.

Now if you don't mind I'm going to go on a bit of a rant about one exciting feature that this drum has. Our reimagined version of internal tone control.

You may or may not have encountered a drum with internal tone control or internal dampening before. I have fond memories of an old 60s Supraphonic snare that I had that featured this mechanism.

If you know what I'm talking about, Skip this paragraph. Basically, internal tone control is a small mechanism on the inside of the drum that consists of a piece of spring steel, and a circular felt dampening pad. An operation knob is placed on the outside of the drum, this knob turns a threaded Rod which moves the felt dampening pad on or off of the batter head, effectively muffling or dampening the drum to the desired amount.

The problem with old internal dampening mechanisms was that they had a couple of small details that were overlooked, these small details turned the majority of the drum world against these simple and genius little devices.

We have done our best to reimagine and improve upon the design of our predecessors, and have reintroduced this feature on all HHG drums including this one.

You'll notice a small wooden knob above the air vent on this drum, the knob is made from hand selected black walnut, and it bears the HHG initials engraved on it. This wood knob is the operation knob for the internal tone control. By turning it clockwise you advance the large felt dampening pad toward the head. The knob has a positive stop so that you can only back the dampening pad so far away from the head before it stops. This way, you are always only about a quarter of an inch away from a dampened snare drum head.

The way I personally like to use the dampening system is to hold a drumstick in one hand, making repeated strokes on the drum at a medium to low volume, while slowly turning the dampening knob, I use my ears to listen to the drum and as the dampening is slowly applied.... this allows you to find the sweet spot or you have just the right amount of dampening applied without choking the batter head.

I'm sorry that I had to write a small book about this drum. It just felt appropriate. Anyways, if you made it this far congratulations to you... And I very much hope that you consider purchasing this instrument. 

As with all of our drums and listings shown, when you place an order with HHG Drums, your new instrument will be hand-crafted in house, from scratch. The drum shown in the pictures was built for a customer, and now resides with them.

If you have any idea for a shell, snare, or kit- please feel free to contact us at facebook.com/hhgdrums or via our Instagram by following @hhg_drums. Custom builds are welcome, and we will do our best to build whatever it is that you can dream up!