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Has anyone tried these? They are supposed to be LPs best. I am thinking of getting 13/14, 15/16 in brass and matador brass timbalitos.. I also wanna know if it is possible to put calf skins on those.. I would get the tito puente timbalitos but they come in weird sizes. I wanna make a set up simalar to Tito's with timbales, thunder tims and timbalitos, and I will make custom hardware for bells. ...so what do you think about prestige tims? Have you tried them??

oye, tengo los prestiges timbales, and yeah they are great, la cascara es buena, y the ones i have are in steel, y i have some gon bops marianos en steel, and i can say they are comparable.

Yes they are compatible with calf heads. I believe Earth Tone is currently the only manufacturer of new pre-mounted calf heads


-AndyG

Calf skin heads are also available from Stern Tanning. I also want to point out that the Matador timbalitos are brass plated steel. Not pure brass. It's a shame LP never made timbalitos in standard sizes.

I have the LP prestige timbales in steel and they do sound great. I also have 1970 gon bops mariano timbales in brass as a comparison and although they aren't as good as the gon bops, they are the best available at the present time.

I also own prestige (14/15) and old gon bops timbales (13/14)
cascara sounds good for those 2 models
but to play on the skin, i'd rather like LP
Gon Bops are not good for high tuning, not enough strong