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    hey everyone, so I've got a good deal on a few toms (12, 12 and 13) to add to my kit, the question is how do I add them? what do I need to mount them on my kit?

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    When I add other toms to my set, I use snare stands.

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    Welcome to DC fred , first what brand/size kit do you presently have. Does it have a virgin bass or tom mounted. Like Rick mentioned snare stands are good to use for extra toms if they can't be mounted on bass drum. You could also use cymbal/tom mounting brackets. You mention 2 12 toms and 1 13 why would you want to mount 2 12 unless I am reading it wrong.

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    I want to cut them down to 8 and 6 inches to get a different sound (I only paid 10$ each so no big loss if it doesn't work out)

    at the moment I have a vintage royce (cheap quality) drum set, the toms are mounted on the bass drum.
    I just put some new skins on the drums and the sound isn't that bad, but then again I'm only starting out in drumming, I'm getting new zildjan cymbals tomorrow, in a year or so I'm planning on replacing the drums to have something better (hopefully I'll be getting better as well)

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    Understandable man. Welcome to the drum world.

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    Mount them anyway you'd like... you can buy STM brackets and put them on a cymbal stand too.

    I assume they have some kind of tom mount on them.
    Find an arm now and buy a bracket to connect to a stand and boom done.

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    I got a bracket that attaches to my cymbal boom stand that I used to mount my 8 inch tom

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    If the toms have brackets, just get an arm that fits those. If not, you can use a suspension mount for that, then attach that to a tom arm. Either way, you will also need a clamp to attach to a cymbal stand, or you could get a double tom stand for them.
    As far as cutting them down, the shell depth will make a difference (I assume they are 12"x10" now then if you're making a 12"x8"?) but it won't be drastic except maybe the 12"x6"...

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