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Random as a box of frogs
We have just had about the most random sale you could think of…
The conversation went something like this:
- Customer: Hi there, i need a snare..
- Us: We have many *gesture at snare wall*
- Us: What are you looking for, metal, wood, any particular sound?
- Customer: Well, the sound doesnt really matter.
- Us: Uhm, ok…..
- Customer: My partner is going to make a cabinet out of it and replace the skins with wood inlayed with a cat tattoo…
- Us: Ooook!
So, basically this guy’s girlfriend is Rosie Brown, an artist who makes some excellent bespoke cabinets and furniture with intricate inlaid designs from wood. The snare is going to have both skins replaced with one of her wooden designs.
As the snare is to be made into a cabinet instead of played, we half expected just a non-descript basic snare to be used, but no the customer suprised us yet again and went for a £340 Jimmy Degrasso Pearl signature model, in gold finish. Not often we get someone spending almost £350 on a snare and not even hitting it with a stick first!
Here is the snare he took away:
 Pearl Jimmy Degrasso Snare We’ve given the customer a card with our details on, and asked him to send us a picture of the snare when it’s finished, so we’ll make another post when we get that through.
In the mean time, if you want to look at some more of Rosie’s work you can do so by clicking here.
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Well you see, it is artists like Rosie Brown that make this world go round. Why, she possibly created the blood drip for a mobile “bloody mary” urn in her website picture. That’s art. What *would* be crazy is buying that golden snare to house a shoal of frogs. Or whatever frogs in numbers are called. Thanks for reading.