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5 makers

  • Latin Percussion

    The American standard for congas and hand percussion

    Models: 12 · Categories: 1

    Martin Cohen founded LP in 1964 after failing to buy decent congas in New York, and the company effectively industrialised Afro-Cuban percussion: consistent, tunable, durable instruments where the tradition had relied on hide, rope, and luck. LP hardware — the Jam Block, the Cyclops tambourine, the Aspire student line — is standard equipment worldwide.

  • Rhythm Tech

    American maker of reinvented small percussion

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Rhythm Tech's contribution is redesign rather than tradition: the crescent-shaped tambourine that removed the dead hand position, mountable shakers, and hardware-friendly versions of instruments that had always been held.

  • Toca Percussion

    Hand percussion at working-musician prices

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Toca covers congas, bongos, djembes, and cajons at prices that put a serviceable instrument in a school or a rehearsal room. The Freestyle series, with synthetic shells and heads, is the line most often seen where instruments have to survive being moved.

  • Gon Bops

    Los Angeles congas since the 1950s

    Models: 3 · Categories: 1

    Mariano Bobadilla began building congas in Los Angeles in the 1950s and the drums became the West Coast standard in Latin jazz. The brand went dormant and was revived, now under Drum Workshop, with the original shell profiles reissued.

  • Cooperman

    Vermont maker of frame drums and rope-tension drums

    Models: 3 · Categories: 2

    Cooperman builds historically accurate rope-tension field drums and fifes for reenactment and early music, and a widely used line of frame drums and bodhráns. The shop has been in Vermont for three generations.