I'm a sixty one year old Puertoriqueno from the Bronx. I have had the blessing of meeting and personally hanging out with Junior Tirado and have two beautiful congas from him made in 1976. one, the bass, is made out of African mahogany and the other, the tercera, is made out of Ash wood (rubia). I've enjoyed playing them in the cuchifrito circuit in Spansh Harlem and the Bronx when I played in several small bands professionally for about six years.