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Pedrito Martinez Deep Cut Bata, Small
Pedrito Martinez Deep Cut Bata, Medium
Pedrito Martinez Deep Cut Bata, Large
LP's Bata Drum History
Founder and Chairman, Martin Cohen, first came across bata drums more than
thirty years ago at a religious ceremony in the Bronx, New York. Traditionally
batas are ceremonial drums that are played in groups. At least three
people sit, each with a different size drum, and act out "call and response"
patterns on the drums.
They were traditionally rope tuned, but today, through the use of
state-of-the-art machinery, LP Bata Drums are wrench tuned. They are made
from LP's specially selected, kiln dried, environmentally friendly Siam Oak and
are the most precisely made batas available today.