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    40.00 - 65.00
    Hand-machined one at a time out of solid brass, this useful heirloom is designed to be the "one" that lives in your pocket, stick bag, or studio snare drum.

    All-brass construction is gentle on patina'd and nickel-plated vintage rods.

    Available plain or with etched monogram (+$25), and in polished "Bright Brass" or "Honest Brass," our signature house finish. Both will show handling and wear truthfully and develop a beautiful, rich look in time.

    If ordering monogram, please specify 2-letter monogram in order notes.
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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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