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Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:17 am**

i am wondering what peoples thoughts are on this set, i am new to this instrument...but i have an urge to play and learn more and more about it...i am very close to ordering the bobby allende conga, tumba, and quinto..i am a begginer, and i live in venezuela...so the congas i buy have to be shipped from the us down..so please if anyone with experience can give me some tips i would more than apreciate that...

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:21 am**

Hello!

I have all three of these ladies and I'm more than happy with them; but I'm using Remo tucked skin, cause crimplock are weak.

SOme players don't like them, it's a matter of a taste. Try them, hear them first and then decide!

Good Luck and keep the Groove!

Primoz

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:28 am**

don't they bring remo fiberskyn 3 heads? what are crimplocks? jeje excuse me i am much of a newbie...but im a very quick learner and with a little help ill get there in no time

thanks allot for your help... i think im going to end up ordering these anyways.

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:57 am**

I owned a set of these congas after playing matadors for three years. It was a tough transition, eventually leading to me selling them.

Pros: Virtually weather resistant. Stay in tune. Light-weight. Bright tone and attack. Cool looking hardware.

Cons (in my opinion): 28" height is hard to adjust to. Rims sit too high on synthetic heads (for my technique). Almost too much tone on Conga and Tumba. Lightweight forced me to have to strap these together in order to keep them from knocking over.

They are good drums. Cool looking and great sounding. Good value as well. They are just different sounding than wooden drums and honestly I think that was my only problem with them. Just a personal preference. I'm not a die-hard anti-fiberglass guy by any means.

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:35 pm**

Chiripasa!

Remo skins (fyberskyn 3)are the same, they are only different by the hoop ring;
I think this will be more rich than my words in English:

CRIMPLOCK:
http://www.remo.com/portal/products/3/12/115/194/fi_crimplock.html

and

TUCKED:
http://www.remo.com/portal/products/3/12/115/196/fi_tucked.html

See the difference? Crimplock is similar to ordinary drum set heads, tucked is more like congas heads like; much more durable, but the sound the same...

Groove!

Primoz

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:41 pm**

I had bad luck with the crimplock on congas. The tucked I think is a better way to go. The Bobby Allende conga are nice.

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Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:40 pm**

R U Kidding me? Venezuela has some great congas as well as Columbia....I personally do not like the Allende's and Im a Pearl Artist, but to each his own...i dont like artificial heads and that "garbage can" sound...my 3 congas...Johnny Conga....

Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:06 am**

JohnnyConga wrote:R U Kidding me? Venezuela has some great congas as well as Columbia....I personally do not like the Allende's and Im a Pearl Artist, but to each his own...i dont like artificial heads and that "garbage can" sound...my 3 congas...Johnny Conga....

Agreed, their are some awesome tumbadoras coming out of Venezuela and Colombia like JC said.

I have played the Allende series, and I must say, I really disliked everything about them except for how they look.

They sounded terrible, overtones, ringing, fake skin, fake bodys, I dislike artificial heads and the sound which they produce. These Allende series are way over rated in my opinion.

For marcha there is nothing like true cuero and madera.

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Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:11 am**

There was an earlier conversation on these congas here: http://www.congaplace.com/cgi-bin....llenmde

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:18 pm**

Chiripasa,

Bobby Allende es uno de mis percusionista preferido y no te niego que me gustaria tener el set completo de el cafe con leche y tambien tiene unas nuevas son como blancas con brillo parecidas a las Giovanny GALAXY . Tengo unas LP classic milleniun y no se si en un futuro las cambiaria por que tambien me gustan mucho el sonido yo personalmente lo escuche tocar en Puerto Rico con la spanish Harlem y se escuchaban bien muchas veces no es el arco y la flecha si no el indio Sammy Garcia veterano percusionista de P.R. las usa y Eric Velez congero de Mark Anthony tambien. Suerte que todo salga bien

MEL

que siga la rumba

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:39 pm**

Bienvenido Rivera. Me alegro que sepas la realidad, no es tanto el arco y la flecha sino el Indio. Los instrumentos de calidad profesional son bien importantes pero el que se sienta detras de ellos y le da vida es lo mas importante. Wepa Boricua El Sabor Lo Dice Todo!

Posted: **Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:57 pm**

Gracias por el apoyo fue que vi un comentario sobre las mismas y entiendo que no sabemos cuando le ha costado a este percusionista tener sus signature series y que nosotros como fanaticos no le demos el apoyo a una persona que ha tocado con los grandes willie,Celia, Ruben descendiente de una cepa de caballetes.

saludos
que siga la rumba

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