Do u mean sizes ? Or general assessment of Remo heads ? My issue w/ Remo heads are these. Laminated plastic will de laminate & peel up, bubble up etc. Depending on the mounting to the glue channel skin wires or the wrap around style like skins are mounted onto a skin wire, you can experience failure. The skins can pull out of glue channels & the ones wrapped onto round skin wires can pull off & unwrap. It amazes me that Remo did not use square profile wire to form skin wires. This is an old issue since calf skin days & Valje bongos successfully used squared wires to secure thinner bongo heads since the 1950's. I have a Remo NuSkinz bongo head that I had to re mount the plastic to the skin wire & added Super Glue Gel to secure the plastic to the wire. Later the top laminate was tearing due to razor nicks from the original manufacture process of the head. Plastic heads do not come in many thicknesses which dictate the sound of bongos, so most often the lower tuned / large bongo shell is going to have lots of high end over toner ring. This can be muted a bit by adding tape or even thin foam rubber to underside of head ( experiment until you like it ). Remo made sound control dots for tom tom heads but never considered this for Latin drums. I guess they don't care how we sound ? They never gave me much attention when I communicated my feed back regarding these issues. Their loss ~ they missed out on potential proprietary Latin Drum heads that would be superior to both plastic & natural heads....for ALL drum heads !
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