Brand New Pearl's Free Floating System Snare Drums have remained among the best selling and most widely used snare drums, year after year, for well over a decade. The "Free Floating" concept of removing all hardware from the shell is an extremely effective way of increasing the amount of coloration of each shell material to maximize its contribution to the overall sound of the drum. This 14"x5" Copper shell features aircraft quality aluminum alloy bottom edge ring , which is machined to provide perfect seating with the shell and is precision cut to offer the most stable, sensitive, responsive snare bed imaginable. An overall, great all round, high flexible snare drum. Size - 14" x 3.5" Shell - Brass Hoops - Mastercast - Die Cast Lugs - Pearl FT-65 (x10) Strainer - SR-1000F Glide Lock Strainer Snare Wire - Ultra Sound I Type Heads - Remo Ambassador (Ctd Batter/ Clr Snare) Free Floating Snare drums offer the truest articulation and response from the shell material. The Shell is completely isolated from any hardware, nothing to encumber its ringing clarity, just unbridled response.