Hello from Germany

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Hi,
thank you all for your friendly comments.

Scott K Fish said:
Welcome. Your drums look beautiful. Are you able to upload an audio file or video so we can have an idea of their sound?

Thank you.

Scott K Fish
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I will make some soundfiles soon.

Bruzzi
 
Scott K Fish said:
Welcome. Your drums look beautiful. Are you able to upload an audio file or video so we can have an idea of their sound?

Thank you.

Scott K Fish
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Hi Scott,
we made a documentary film about the making of another drum but at 18:15 you can hear the oak set.

https://vimeo.com/152955814

Cheers
Bruzzi
 
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Welcome to the forum, Bruzzi. Beautiful drums!

I was stationed in Germany (Schwaebisch Gmeund) from 1987-1990 with the US Army. I loved it there. The people were so nice that I even brought one back with me! :) No, you can't have her back. :laughing6:
 
Scott, did you understand all of that? I didn't; I watched it from beginning to end and really enjoyed it.

Bruzzi, thanks for the documentary, very professional and I can tell your drum making is a labor of love.

sherm
 
Nice work you do!

Im actually currently touring Germany, still 12 gigs to do here in February. Nice country and venues, everything works well. Great country to tour in!
 
Hi,
thank you for the friendly comments and...
...sorry that you could not understand the words in the film.

Here is the story of the drum (sorry, my English is not the best :dontknow: )

The casks are from a friend of mine a winemaker in my neighbourhood.
His grand-grand-grand-grandfather was a good friend of Richard Wagner who stays a few times here at my friends winery in our small town.
The local chronicle says that it was on june 1, 1862 Wagner introduced an unreleased opus while drinking some wine here...
...nowadays this opus is well known as Richard Wagner`s Valkyrie.

When I once visited my friend we talked about our historical buildings (I live and work in an old mill build in the 14th century, his winery was also build as a mill in year 1275) while drinking some wine and talking about Wagner`s visit he surprised me when he said that he still got some of the old casks from that historical day!!!!!!!!

This was the hour of birth for the Richard-Wagner-Snare-Drum-Project.

Bruzzi
 
Bruzzi,
The snare in the documentary is Beautiful! You are a Craftsman!
I worked in a cabinet shop for 2 years as a finisher and I was always amazed at what these guys could do with a piece of wood! You are in the same league as those guys!
Again. Very Beautiful work!!!!
 
I lived in Germany from 1984 - 1987 while stationed in Geilenkirchen with NATO/AWACS. Wife and I love your country and Europe in general.

I must say your drums might be the best example of positive uses of recycled wood I have ever seen. They sounded and looked great. Good job!
 
Your work is first-rate, and I am quite impressed. I am a woodworker as well (but not a professional), and understand the basic fundamentals of making a stave shell, though I have not yet attempted making one. Do you only use recycled wood? If so, is it because you find old growth wood to have better sonic and structural properties than recently-harvested wood typically found at your local hardwood dealer?
 
Welcome to the forum Bruzzi As others have said. Beautiful kit. I love the story of the snare drum.
Wish I had the talents you show.
 
Bruzzi,
Greetings and welcome. What a fantastic kit that is. Just marvelous. Well done indeed.
 
Wir freuen uns, Sie zu uns gekommen sind.

Ausgezeichnete Arbeit! Haben Sie den außerhalb des Schlagzeug-Shell auf einer Drehmaschine ? Ich bin sehr beeindruckt, Sie sind ein Handwerker !

Halten Sie Bilder senden. Es ist toll, andere tun so feine Arbeit zu sehen.

Tschüss!
 
Hi,
thank you very much good to read that craftmenship is still popular.

I just started some new upcycling-projects.

A complete wine-barrel-drumset as addition to the Wagner-snare.

Second is a drumset from old oversea-paletts.


franke said:
Do you only use recycled wood? If so, is it because you find old growth wood to have better sonic and structural properties than recently-harvested wood typically found at your local hardwood dealer?
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There are some reasons why I prefere old woods for my projects.

First reason is that those old woods sound better and the struktur is more stable.
Second I like the colour of the old woods. Especially the old oakwood from wine barrels got wonderfull different colours.
The hardwooddealers often sell kiln-dried woods ... not a good choice for building drums and natural dried wood is very expensive.
At Least it is some kind of sustainable action to do those upcycling-projects.

Bruzzi
 
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