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Mapex Drums (Music And Percussion EXcellence) [1] is a Taiwanese brand of musical instruments established by KHS Musical Instruments in 1989. Instruments manufactured with the "Mapex" name include drum kits , snare drums and hardware .
He previously endorsed Mapex and Yamaha drums and hardware. Over the years Halpern developed a number of signature products, such as the Matt Halpern signature snare drum with Pearl Drums, signature drum key for drumkeyshop.com, Promark signature drumsticks, the Meinl Artist Concept Double Down Stack, and the Mapex Black Panther Wraith snare drum.
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used in orchestras, concert bands, marching bands, parades, drumlines, drum corps, and
The snare drum illustrates the three main ways in which a sound can be perceived as indeterminate in pitch: The sound may lack any fundamental frequency sufficiently loud to produce a sensation of pitch, for example a sound consisting of noise , or a mixture of sounds containing a great deal of such noise.
This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences between tuned and untuned percussion.
By 2006, the company had only 9 employees and its drums were sold with Bill Detamore's signature and the date of manufacture. Recently, Pork Pie has introduced the Little Squealer line, the Piglite acrylic line and the Big Black Brass snare drums. The Big Black Brass drum as well as the Little Squealers are MADE IN TAIWAN.