AFRO conga -- THIS IS IT! :-)

[Mike]

Good buy Mike . will it be getting el grecoed?

marco

Hey Marco,
that´s funny: El Greco or you, respectively, have added a new verb to the English language!

Well, as the skin on this quinto is rather on the thin side and has lots of overtones, I consider recycling my almost 2 litres of olive oil that are left from the mule procedure. Why not - it does wonders to skins...
BTW when dealing with olive oil, my hands were also grateful for some extra care!

How are the oil prices in the UK? Have you already pondered the question of el grecoing your JCR skins?
What´s the barrel of olive juice?

Cheers anyway by a well-greased Mike

[Ernesto Pediangco]

I have the same drums in quinto & conga. The crowns are stronger than mant traditional crowns & I changed the heads but both the original heads are good, thicker than Lp & so the tone is cleaner, no odd hermonic ringiness. The quinto is very impressive when cranked up a 5 th above my conga. I am rtading them for a larger set of Meinls from Asia ( same woods, just larger shell sizes ) then the meinls w/ remo heads will be my rental set or when I need a plastic head drum. My regular use congas are 1998 Gon Bops ( Molinari era )

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[Bongo_Boy]

Mike:

was not Afro Percussion the company that also offered fiberglass congas which were inside coated with sawdust to eliminate that metallic sound? That was a funny idea. When you touched the coating, some of the dust came off. I wonder whether a drummer left circular spots of sawdust wherever he played.

Thomas

It was a bit like that. I will upload some photos of my Afros-

cheers...