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Hey y'all,

I just got a great deal on LP Tito Puente brass timbalitos for $70 on Ebay.  My only problem is how to integrate them into my percussion setup.  When I bought the timbales, they only came with the top part of the timbale stand.  I play seated so I was thinking of buying a multi-clamp and clamping the timbales to what seems to be a lightweight Gibraltar 5600 series boom cymbal stand...  something like having suspended toms for a drumkit.  Do you think that the timbales might be too heavy for the stand?

Thanks everybody

I've used a multi-clamp to do just that ... and it worked fine. The issue is the stand you clamp it all to. I would get a heavy-weight stand, and place the clamp so it's over one of the legs ... helping to keep it from tipping.

If you can, I would REALLY recommend that you just get a new Timbale stand ... the kind that tilt. This way you can slant the Timbales towards you as you sit ... allowing for the right place for your rimshots, etc. This is what I've done in the past when I sit.

A "poor boy" solution is to use a regular, non-tilting Timbale stand or Cymbal stand (with multi-clamp), and place a few blocks (an inch or two thick) under one or two of the Timbale legs. This will tilt the stand for you without having to buy a new stand. It's not going to be as stable, but if you work with the exact placement, it will work and it will stay in place. You just have to experiment with the weight placement ... and make sure you don't bump the stand hard ... like when you leave stage as an example.