type private industry musical instrument manufacturing genre drums founded 1980 1980 founder chris brady defunct november 24 2015 ; 10 months ago 2015 11 24 headquarters armadale australia products drums website official website brady drum company was an australian manufacturing company who specialised in handcrafted drums since 1980 . the designs and workmanship was predominantly the duty of the company s creator chris brady . the firm used native australian hardwoods particularly jarrah sheoak spotted gum marri wandoo and lemon scented gum for the drums they manufactured . the business was based in armadale an outer suburb of perth western australia . history edit chris brady introduced the world s first solid wood hollow tree trunk modern snare drum and revolutionised the ply shell and block shell method of construction . he possibly created the world s first 10 12 and 16 snare drums and is credited with their popularisation in modern music . 1 the company s client list includes over 400 internationally renowned drummers including will calhoun steve ferrone mick fleetwood chad smith jeff porcaro formerly larry mullen jr tre cool and thomas lang . 2 though the company manufactures all drums shells their fame is gained from their snare drums . in april 2015 brady drum company ceased production of their instruments following chris brady s ongoing health complications . in november 2015 brady drum company announced the closure of the company via its official website and facebook page . 3 sources edit grand kahuna . retrieved 3 may 2013 . artists . retrieved 3 may 2013 . brady closure . retrieved 26 november 2015 . external links edit official website this article about a musical instrument company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title brady drum company & oldid 720380898 categories manufacturing companies of australiapercussion instrument manufacturing companiesmusical instrument company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 15 may 2016 at 14 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view