Patent ID: 7202405
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A snare assembly for use with a snare drum, said snare assembly comprising: a pair of spaced end members; and a plurality of generally parallel snare strands extending between and each attached at opposite ends thereof to respective ones of said end members; said snare strands having continuously graduated effective lengths for providing continuously graduated tension of said snare strands in a transverse direction of said snare assembly when said snare strands are elongated in an axial direction thereof, wherein at least one of said end members is provided with a curved inner edge so that said opposite ends of said snare strands are secured to a bottom surface of said at least one of said end members substantially along said curved inner edge thereof in order to continuously graduate said effective lengths of said snare strands in the transverse direction of the snare assembly.