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prestige timbales

Postby VJBaros » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:49 am

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??
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Re: prestige timbales

Postby MedinaNYC » Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:59 am

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.
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Re: prestige timbales

Postby RetroVintageDrummer » Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:37 am

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


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Re: prestige timbales

Postby RetroVintageDrummer » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:18 am

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.
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Re: prestige timbales

Postby MedinaNYC » Sat Mar 21, 2015 12:57 am

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.
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Re: prestige timbales

Postby CDEM » Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:02 pm

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
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