Craviotto Limited Edition Snare Drums BR Distribution

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Limited Edition Snares

As a drummer and drum builder, Johnny Craviotto has been involved in the music business for nearly half a century. He began his professional playing career in the early 1960’s and quickly progressed to touring and recording with Rock ‘N’ Roll pioneers, including Ry Cooder, Buffy St. Marie, Moby Grape and Neil Young. During that period, Johnny also became interested in the history and construction of drums. He began collecting vintage drums and studying the art of drum building. Through extensive research, experimentation and patience, he eventually developed his own formula for producing drumshells from a single piece of steam-bent hardwood.

This proprietary process advanced the classic “solid shell” design by significantly improving the consistency and integrity of the shell to provide modern drummers with unprecedented, unsurpassed levels of snare drum sound and performance. By using this exclusive combination of hand-selected hardwoods and premium- grade components along with the handcrafted construction methods that he developed, Craviotto was able to transform solid planks of wood into fine musical instruments.

Craviotto’s style of solid-shell drum construction also allowed a distinctive quality of sound and response to emerge from each drum due to the organic variety in the grain pattern, density and mass of each board. In fact, since every drum had its own inherent tonal and performance characteristics, not only did Craviotto drums differ from all others, each also subtly differed from one another. The natural individuality of the wood, along with the uncompromising attention to detail employed during all phases of the production process, elevated the solid-shell snare drum as an art form and single-handedly resurrected its popularity and prestige.

Limited Edition Snares

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