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I'm playing Jost Reiche's congas for 20 years now besides my 30 years old set of Gon Bops mahagony congas. Are there any other board members using them? I find his congas to be on the highest quality level around.
Have a look: http://www.reiche-trommelbau.de/

Many of my friends and students bought them over the years, all are quite satisfied. Here's a pic of me tuning a stage full of Reiche congas before a performance of my students' group:

... and here's a pic of several of my instruments: mostly Reiche congas, a Reiche jenbe, a Reiche jonga (a jenbe/conga hybrid he no longer makes), a set of Gon Bops walnut bongos, a set of 15" & 16" JCR timbales and some small percussion - her you can see the drums in greater detail.

They certainly look like beautiful congas, they remind me of Valjes, I'd never heard of them until 5 minutes ago !

Cheers,

Barrie

Really nice looking drums!
Do you have any video of you playing them?

No.2-1820 wrote:They certainly look like beautiful congas, they remind me of Valjes, I'd never heard of them until 5 minutes ago !

Cheers,

Barrie

I first read about and saw pictures of Reiche congas around this time last year. Yes, they're beautifully-constructed congas indeed! IMO, their hardware is also reminiscent of those of Fat Congas, especially the crown ears and the diamond-shaped lug mounting plates.

I can't read German but loooking at the site it seems those are made of african mahoghany. I'm sure they must sound fat as hell. Look nice too..

Alex you may find this useful when translating non english languages .

http://www.freetranslation.com/

HTH

Marco

Alex you can try http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ or http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Tjaderized can you post some more detailed pictures and some video?

I ordered Reiche congas in july and will be built in october. My set will be 1x super quinto(24,5) 2xcongas(29,5) 1xtumba(32,5) 1xsuper tumba(34). I will post pictures when i get them and make a video too if anyone is intrested. I never played them and i know almost nobody who have them. But the ones who have them are very happy. And because of that i am nervous what i will get,.....

J

The stand for seated playing looks interesting

Sorry, friends, I don't have any usable videos. There's one of the performance with my students group in the works from the performance where the first pic was taken, but it has to be edited and the soundtracks synchronized. I will keep you informed.
Yes they sound great. I will ask Jost to particpate in this discussion, although he is no fan of self-promotion, but he has some recordings, I think.

They look more like the Vintage Gon Bops.
Paz
Olsongo

Jost Reiche now have on his web site (http://www.reiche-trommelbau.de/) a video presentation with Marcus Ostfeld playing his congas!

Thanks Jost Reiche for posting his video and i hope he will join this forum and give us a first hand expiriance on congas from building to playing them!


Jure

Wow those are gorgeous! Damn!

The Reiche drums have been talked about briefly on this forum before, but I don't think anyone here has owned any up until now... hence, not much in-depth discussion has been made so far. Perhaps this would be the thread to really discuss them in depth.

anyway to buy from any dealer here in the states , i would love to have a set of these in my collection ??????? jaisen...