Talk:Snare drum

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Grammar In the first paragraph, the word "stretched" was spelt wrong. I fixed it.

"Genre Specification" cleanup?
Half of this reads like a how-to buyer's guide. I'm considering possible cleanup and/or wikification; as a relatively new contributor, I welcome everyone's objections or suggestions. Geo.per 15:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, with different drummers' preferences varying greatly within genres, this whole section is relatively pointless. It doesn't bring forth any real information to the article, it just kind of says that many different sizes can be used and there is no standard. That being said, it defeats the purpose of the whole section. This drum is the worst drum in the world. El_Chupanibre El Chupanibre That is false it is simply just not true that is opinion not fact so go away you riff raff

Picture
Why is it that there is a picture of an old drum when there is no present snare drum picture? I'm going to add and if people think it neccesary remove it... Foolzter

Ok all done... I think it fits the article but I could be wrong... Foolzter

Origin
I think it would be nice to have iformation on the original creator/inventor of the snare drum, or at least a more definite period as it is very ambiguous, and i have searched the whole internet for this tiny piece of infomation with no real results. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.219.40.2 (talk) 10:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC).
 * I suspect the inventor is lost in time - I popped in here to see if there was more info than I've found. The rattle part was added to the Tabor around the 1600s (there are many sources for this - a search should come up with some legitimate ones, the Tabor itself dates to the 1300s or earlier). The name itself probably originates from the Dutch word snaar (cord) or the Old High German snuor, or maybe the modern German word schnur (string) but personally I suspect the German word schnarre (pronounced sch and then like you're saying snarl without the l, and the ch is silent in some dialects) may be a factor in why it is called a snare drum - that word literally means to rattle. The occupation of Schnarre/Schnorr/Schnirer/etc (there are a bunch of similar ones) historically is... string/rope makers. Oh, and by the way, Germans call the snare drum a Leinentrommel (linen drum, probably referring to a canvas head, the word also means canvas), so it very well might have been migrants that named it the word English speakers know. 63.169.138.2 (talk) 22:45, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: "Genre Specification" cleanup?
Done, the previous Types section was a POV commentary so I replaced it with verifiable information regarding materials and sizes. Still need to get some cites regarding history. -Bikinibomb 07:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

hey
hey —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.154.10.125 (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Ethiopia?
Snare drums originated in Ethiopia? anyone have some proof of this claim, or is it BS Verratensie (talk) 04:06, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know one way or another, but without a reference to cite, it's gone for now. __Just plain Bill (talk) 15:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

History of snare drum
I added a couple things I learned about the history of the snare drum when looking for other items. It's a start, but really not enough. Apologies. I don't know if Groves dictionary has some explanation or anyone else? (I don't have access to it, so it's kind of hard). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ll1324 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

cassa chiara
I've seen "cassa" and "cassa chiara" in classical music scores from time to time. Googling around, it appears to be a snare drum. Are the terms directly synonymous? Can I simply create a redirect here for the term or is there a subtle distinction? Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Kick snare
Is a kick snare a kind of snare drum? 70.247.172.237 (talk) 21:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)


 * The kick is the bass drum. Hyacinth (talk) 04:58, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Rewrite
This article needs major work, starting with the lead... The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument... (my wikilinking)... no it's not. Andrewa (talk) 00:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Under way...Andrewa (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Melodic percussion
I decided I was sufficiently fascinated by the question of who might think that a snare drum was melodic percussion that I tracked it down...

added 21 November 2011

and it's by an IP with no other edits to date. That trail is now cold enough that we'll probably never know whether it was ignorance, deliberate vandalism, or an unofficial tiger team test, ie someone wanting to see or demonstrate how good or bad we are at detecting misinformation. In any case we didn't do very well...

removed 9 March 2012

and there were quite a lot of edits in the meantime... didn't any of those editors read the lead before editing the article? Or did none of them know that a snare drum is unpitched percussion? The mind seriously boggles...

Still, if we didn't have ignorance, we wouldn't need Wikipedia... (-> Andrewa (talk) 16:13, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Infobox
I've added an infobox relating to the drum as a musical instrument, not too successfully. It's too wide to match the drum kit component infobox, and the Hornbostel–Sachs data is of dubious value. Andrewa (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Big, uncited lists at the bottom
At the bottom of the article, there's a series of long lists with no citations. The "Famous solo works" and "Famous orchestral repertoire" sections are obviously relevant, but does this article benefit at all from a list of method books and brands, each of which individually is longer than both of the lists of works combined? Someone should consider removing them, or at least cutting them down to size.24.21.118.190 (talk) 22:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I removed the whole list. If any of the works are notable we could include them again. Bjelleklang -  talk 10:15, 11 February 2021 (UTC)