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Product Description

Dream Theatre's, Mike Portnoy's Signature 14x5.5 maple snare is his main snare of choice. Utilising the unique three-way strainer sytem, allowing tension changes to be made quickly and easily as changing two snare drums.
Mike's long list of Awards include 24 Modern Drummer Magazine Reader's Poll Awards including: 2004 Hall of Fame Inductee, Best Progressive Rock Drummer (12 years in a row!!), Best Clinician (twice), Best Educational Video/DVD for Liquid Drum Theater, and Best Recorded Performance of the Year (6 times) for Dream Theater's Awake, A Change of Seasons, Falling Into Infinity, Scenes From A Memory, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and Score.



Specification
The story of Mike Portnoy's signature snare began in 1997 when Mike came up with the idea of a tension strainer controlled by a foot pedal - very cool, but very complicated and too expensive for all but maybe five people in the world. So Mike and TAMA came up with an equally cool (but less complicated and expensive) three-way snare strainer which makes switching tension as easy as switching between two snare drums. Named after his daughter, Melody, Mike Portnoy's Melody Master drums come in two versions: his main snare, the MP1455 maple, and the MP125 steel.