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    Art Nouveau

    1,900.00 - 2,150.00
    With an Art Nouveau design that pays tribute to the beautiful instruments of the early 20th century while remaining rooted in the present, the Art Nouveau has the same heart and soul as our Standard, but with an heirloom-quality etching. Repeating every other panel, the painstakingly applied design makes this edition a centerpiece of any player's collection.

    Ships with Remo Coated Ambassador batter, Remo Hazy snare side heads, and particularly nice snare wires.

    Approximate lead time is 4 months: contact for current update if required. Shipping in contiguous 48 states included; worldwide receives a $70 credit, with remainder due before shipping.
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    • VISION

      I feel like the world has enough “perfect” drums.  There's a lot of robots in Asia making amazing instruments with NASA-grade precision. But personally, for an musical instrument, I find beautiful more inspiring and important than perfect. And I’m not sure how those "perfect" drums are all going to hold up over time.  Particularly metal drums. In a hundred years, are they going to wear out, strip out, have lacquer crack off, have pitted plating and rust? Almost categorically, yes, if they last that long. Are they going to be as beautiful and inspiring, be something that we'll want to pass down to our kids, our grandkids, our closest drummer friends or hardest-working students?

      The most useful drums for me, as a full-time professional musician, have been instruments that have aged gracefully. Things that were intended to sound and feel good before all else, and crafted by human hands. And they’ve often been drums that have lasted nearly 100 years so far, with many more miles left to go.

      So that’s what I set out to build. Drums that will inspire, sound amazing, look even better with age and use, and be just as musically useful for their 2nd and 3rd owners, a century or longer from now. Inspired by the great brass drums of the 1920s and 1930s, of course, but with a modern, minimalist aesthetic. And with fresh designs, for the music of today and the future.

       

      Being individually hand-crafted with traditional methods, they are far from perfect, now or ever, but I think they're something much more important: these drums are beautiful, forever.

       

      -Aaron Latos

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    Latos Drums
    11 Spring St

    Newburgh, NY 12550

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