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    M8 to 1/4-20 Cymbal Thread Adapter
    • M8 to 1/4-20 Cymbal Thread Adapter
    • M8 to 1/4-20 Cymbal Thread Adapter

    M8 to 1/4-20 Cymbal Thread Adapter

    45.00 - 75.00
    Many old cymbals have smaller cymbal holes that won’t fit over a modern cymbal stand.

    And some players feel that even modern cymbals benefit from the freer swinging feel of the smaller rod size on older cymbal stands.

    

Here’s my answer. This adapter screws onto the top of a modern M8 stand, and gives you a 1/4"-20 thread, just like older American-made cymbal stands.

    A couple of these in your bag, and your old Ks/old As/Italians will safely fit over any modern backline cymbal stand that comes your way.

    Or, you can enjoy the stability and adjustability of a heavy modern stand with the thread size of an old stand… OR just have these as a convenient solution when the backline kit is missing stand washer/sleeves. 




    Hand-machined in the Latos Drums workshop with:

    

+Solid brass body that will patina and age gracefully, that receives the modern standard M8 size thread
    
American “vintage-spec” 1/4”-20 thread rod on top.

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Silent, “creak free” clear vinyl sleeve

    +Vintage-style cupped washers


    +Minimalist, vintage-spec wingnut
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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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