rim and drum shell materials and manufacture.

The snare drum is constructed of two heads--both usually made of Mylar plastic in modern drums but historically made from calf or goat skin--along with a rattle of beads (metal, plastic, nylon, or gut) called "snares" in close contact with it, on the bottom head, which vibrate when the drum is struck. The snares can also be on the top, as in the tarol snare drum, or on both heads as in the case of the