Indeed! Good answer! So, then, say....an orchestral snare drummer or a marching snare drummer who never hits a cymbal with his sticks will not suffer these dirty black marks on their coated drumheads then, right?
Well...there will be stick marks, but probably not black ones. Eventually the coating will wear off from normal play and it will discolor the head, just not in the same way that would happen with a drumkit.....
dirt from the cymbals.
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So, then, say....an orchestral snare drummer or a marching snare drummer who never hits a cymbal with his sticks will not suffer these dirty black marks on their coated drumheads then, right?
I don't recall my concert sticks transferring black marks to heads.
I also can't recall the last time I (or my students) used marching sticks on a coated head, or at least the type of coated head most of us would think about. Typical marching snare heads nowadays are made of high strength fabrics like Kevlar with a thin plastic film coating. If any marks transfer from the stick, they generally just wipe off.
