I congratulate you on being an innovator in an industry that doesn’t do ANY REAL innovation. My issue is, this may not have been a problem needed solving. There are other issues with snare drums that need to be looked at. As the loudest instrument in the drum set, if the volume of a snare drum be brought down in a significant way, so many other issues concerning the volume of drums could be attended to. Secondly, if someone could rethink use of metal snares wires as an alternate another component, that would be revolutionary. Fundamentally, it would be great if an inventor could consider how air pressure inside the drum is the single most important aspect of a drum, on the volume it produces, and how the snares react to the bottom head.