Listen to Poncho Sanchez play Marlon Brando’s drum invention on NPR:

Actor Marlon Brando was an Afro-Cuban drumming enthusiast, as well as an inventor whose lost prototypes became the stuff of urban legend.

“In a nondescript storage facility in West Los Angeles sits a little-known bit of Hollywood history. It concerns the late legendary actor Marlon Brando, but it’s not about any of his stage or screen roles.”

LISTEN TO THE FULL STORY:

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/03/137558144/marlon-brandos-lost-musical-innovation