Great deal nessalynn77. I highly recommend you use a smaller stick like a Sweet Ride from Vic Fith or Vater or a Maple stick. reason being is that piccolo snares pack a lot of volume and must be played with control or else they will over power everything else. The Pearl free-floater in particular with it's die-cast hoops and marching drum design (free-floater) is for increased resonance and volume and cut. Many jazz greats have and do use piccolo snares: Peter Erskine, Ed Thigpin, Max Roach, and Funk Legend Dave Garibaldi studio/touring drum great Tom Knight so it not the size of the drum that creates the problems it is the control of the player (or lack thereof).
