timbales with drum key style tuning

justjim · #1 09-21-2009, 08:43 PM

I know LP makes a line (the prestige)

anybody else make em? (Im thinking full on timbales like a 13-15 macho as opposed to timbalitos or trapkit adjuncts)

wy yung · #2 09-22-2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by justjim

I know LP makes a line (the prestige)

anybody else make em? (Im thinking full on timbales like a 13-15 macho as opposed to timbalitos or trapkit adjuncts)

Tycoon percussion make them. This is the company that used to make the LP Aspire line.

justjim · #3 09-22-2009, 02:52 AM

hey!

thanks for taking the time!

(Im having a little trouble finding the models that use a drumkey stye tuning system -- any idea? no worries if not, Ill take a closer look and drop em an email)

justjim · #4 09-22-2009, 08:36 AM

update - I went ahead and emailed them

I'm not seeing any of their products on their website with the feature, but if they are releasing stuff under other badges or have a new line - perhaps it's not reflected on the website

fingers are crossed

and thanks again!

looks like Pearl has a couple of products as well with that style tuning - so perhaps they are out there more than I realize

wy yung · #5 09-22-2009, 08:41 AM

The Tycoon stuff is fine. I just played a set.

justjim · #6 09-22-2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by wy yung

The Tycoon stuff is fine. I just played a set.

thats cool

my initial concern is not so much with the overall quality of any particular make - but about the inclusion particular design element (top style drumkey tuning)

haven't heard back from tycoon yet - but it's a little early and their US offices look to be in CA (Im west coast too)

did the set you just played have the top-style drumkey tuning? (any idea what the model was?)

wy yung · #7 09-23-2009, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by justjim

did the set you just played have the top-style drumkey tuning? (any idea what the model was?)

Yep. I thinks it's a low end set. They are for sale here in the shop. The shells are fine. The tuning is just like a kit drum. Sometimes the usual way is a pain having to hold the spanner beneath the drum to make an adjustment.

justjim · #8 09-23-2009, 05:42 PM

yup - a total pain
(Im glad to see that things are transitioning)