Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:32 pmOk, here goes the question.
I'm a good friend of Giovanni Hidalgo and I know from experience performing with him that he prefers wood congas. In fact, in a past performance with him, he had the choice of picking congas between two different sets of LP Classic Wood congas (my set, and another congueros), and a set of three Patata Congas, which, according to the owner (Freddie Moreno, of Moreno's Music in Springfield MA), were the original prototype conga set, given to his son by Patato in recognition of his son's outstanding conga technique.
Well, everytime I go over to Freddie's store and messed around on the prototype fiberglass congas, I could really good sounds and awesome, crackling highs, with a real good tone. But, when I would play on my Wood LP Classics, I could never get the cutting tone, although my congas were the warmest of the entire set.
So, the question is: Should I sell my LP Wood Classics and get an LP Patato Fiberglass model, or keep the Wood classics?
(just for knowledge, Giovanni chose a Quinto and Conga from the other guy's Wood Classics, and my Conga and Tumbadora for the 4 congas of the gig).
Something tells me I should stay with my LP Classics, but, I really like being able to get crackling highs, and Fiberglass gives me that.
Hit me up, rgb@polsci.umass.edu
I'm a good friend of Giovanni Hidalgo and I know from experience performing with him that he prefers wood congas. In fact, in a past performance with him, he had the choice of picking congas between two different sets of LP Classic Wood congas (my set, and another congueros), and a set of three Patata Congas, which, according to the owner (Freddie Moreno, of Moreno's Music in Springfield MA), were the original prototype conga set, given to his son by Patato in recognition of his son's outstanding conga technique.
Well, everytime I go over to Freddie's store and messed around on the prototype fiberglass congas, I could really good sounds and awesome, crackling highs, with a real good tone. But, when I would play on my Wood LP Classics, I could never get the cutting tone, although my congas were the warmest of the entire set.
So, the question is: Should I sell my LP Wood Classics and get an LP Patato Fiberglass model, or keep the Wood classics?
(just for knowledge, Giovanni chose a Quinto and Conga from the other guy's Wood Classics, and my Conga and Tumbadora for the 4 congas of the gig).
Something tells me I should stay with my LP Classics, but, I really like being able to get crackling highs, and Fiberglass gives me that.
Hit me up, rgb@polsci.umass.edu