Re: Do I Like Water Buffalo Heads?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 4:15 am
I like the bleached skins, but not overly bleached, the skins I've had from Ralph always retain some of the yellowish, creamy colors which shows me that they have been lightly bleached, they seems to have a dryer sound to me, perhaps because they have lost some of the natural oils. I alternate between a kip (from Fat conga who supply beauties) and a bleach cow from ralph on my Timba bongo macho, when you get used to them (it seems to require more focused technic than the mule on my other set) I find they produce very authentic old school tones, it seems to me from photographs that many of the old masters used thicker and often white skins on their bongo, Jose Manguel, Jack Costanza etc. You also see the white heads on many congas, including Mongo and Ray Barretto etc. I've heard one drawback is they don't last as long but hey, it's all about the tones !
Hey BNB, what's your friends name ? I sold a lovely old matador to a bay area local that was topped with a great sounding bleached skin.
Barrie
Hey BNB, what's your friends name ? I sold a lovely old matador to a bay area local that was topped with a great sounding bleached skin.
Barrie