Kevlar heads will fit on any standard drum, but you have to be really, really careful with them. You can probably get away with them alone on a metal drum, but on wood you need a reinforcement ring. Pearl used to make these for people that wanted to put Kevlar on older, non free-floating marching snares. It was basically a plastic covered metal ring that went just under the bearing edge to keep the drum from imploding (which it would do under too much tension). I saw a video made by the Cadets snare tech right when Falams came out where they cranked a head on an old snare until it could take no more. He touched it with a stick on a long pole and it literally imploded very violently.
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