For the Walkabout Series, introduced in 2011, founder of Australian drum company Brady Drums Chris Brady, travels deep into remote areas of Australia to hand-select small volumes of rare, indigenous timber species.

New 2012 models in the Walkabout Series are:

• Karijini finish over Jarrah Ply snare drum shell. Only two 14x8 snare drums are available worldwide: at Fork's Drum Closet (USA) and Memphis Drum Shop (USA).
  
• Ten of the 14x6.5 Australian Cedar Wattle (Acacia Elata) block snare drums will be available worldwide. The first four drums are now available at 268 Music (Taiwan), Drum Center of Portsmouth (USA), Fork's Drum Closet (USA) and Memphis Drum Shop (USA).
  
• Only two 12x7 Brown Mallet (Eucalyptus Astringens) ply snare drums are available worldwide: at Fork's Drum Closet (USA) and Drumtech Center (Thailand).

The solid-shell Brown Mallet wood that is so dense it must be boiled for two weeks before being pliable enough to work with.

Brady Drums will be introducing their second Walkabout Series releases for this year in June.

About Brady's Walkabout Series
The Australian continent has a land mass of 7.6 million square kilometers (almost 3 million square miles) and has diverse growth environments and climates.

His "walkabout" excursions allow Chris Brady to hand-select an individual tree from any location, and handcraft timbers previously never seen in the drum industry into limited editions, rarities and unique block and ply shell snare drums.

Availability
Traveling for days in some of the most isolated land in the world for such small quantities of any given species guarantees that availabilities in the Walkabout Series will constantly change.

To reserve one of these exclusive instruments, please contact your local Brady retailer.