This doesn't sound like any of your other drums.
Sorry but you love me for not sugar coating anything
I like that you speak your mind Larry, & all's good, but here's my thoughts.
first up, it's worth noting that zebrano is actually a very bright wood. It has all that rosewood like midrange complexity, & plenty of bottom end, but it's quite biting in the delivery of highs (much more than maple or birch for example).
As for tuning this size of drum super high, I didn't find that worked well at all, & it's my (limited) experience with other 15" snares too. They tend to choke out tonally. There's too much drum going on to be excited by the higher frequencies. The bigger shell wants to vibrate at lower frequencies, but a cranked head doesn't deliver those lower frequencies with sufficient amplitude to get the job done. Essentially, the elements don't align past a certain point, & that's why most tunings are better taken care of by 13" & 14" drums.
There's an additional element here too, & that's the focussed shorter voice afforded by stave, & more specifically, our Tour series construction. If you want a big drum tuned high, you're better off with horizontal grain, thin shell, & low mass hardware. That's a much easier combination to excite at higher tunings, & the longer note helps the lows develop even when the heads aren't offering much by way of low frequency input.
I'll bore the hell out of you about this when we meet up next week
Actually, I wish I could host you here in Andy experimental land for a week. You'd leave confused, but very happy
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Hahahaha, love the over the top cheesy marketing stuff! So tempted to use it
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Even more cheese, oh wait, this is America - everything comes with cheese
(are you guys still using that goddam awful cheese in a can stuff?)