Question on Supercussion bongos - Has anyone heard of them?

[Mike]

I have come across the brand name "Supercussion" and I never heard of it. The bongos look close to the older LP design, especially their bottom rims. They might be on the mid-range price level up to 150 EURO. Probably they´re a Dutch production- I don´t know.
I´m just being curious (again
Any experience or idea to share out there?
Who can shed some light on this kind of bongos?

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[twinsbongo]

hi bongoceros:
this one is for sale or trade $175.00.if intereted give me a call or send e-mail twinsbongo@yahoo.com

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[Mike]

Hmmm - thanks for thread-jacking, Twinsbongo ???

I´d really like to get some feedack on the Supercussion bongos. They´re for sale at Ebay:



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[buckoh]

Mike, I couldn't find those on ebay. Do you have a link? I did see these. They were on Craig's list last week at 150.00 USD

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[Mike]

Buckoh,
here´s the (German) ebay link:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws....&ih=014

But it doesn´t say much on the bongos itself.

Thanks anyway. BTW the bongos you mention look quite OK!

Mike

[Mike]

Now there´s some light to shed on Supercussion and also its founder, Alberto De Hond:

Take a look @

http://www.gijsvanstraalen.com/images/stories/articles/thesis.pdf

(in Dutch)

Mike

[Mike]

De samenwerking tussen Martin Cohen en Alberto de Hond heeft uiteindelijk achttien jaar geduurd. Maar als in een huwelijk, speelden er door de tijd heen allerlei grotere en kleinere conflicten. Alberto bracht ideeën, deed voorbereidend werk en lobbyde voor prospects. Maar de erkenning voor dat alles bleef uit en deed de spanning tussen de twee alsmaar oplopen. In 1988 kwam het tot een breuk. Levering van merkloze instrumenten via Latin Percussion was niet meer mogelijk.
Vanaf dat moment is Alberto zijn Cubaanse instrumentenlijn zelf gaan vervaardigen. Niet in Cuba of de VS, maar uit betere houtsoorten in Azië en Brazilië.

After all those promising bits of information on this page
http://www.latinartiesten.nl/Intervi....nd.html

as well as this statement by Martin Cohen:

Johnny Pacheco, a Dominican accordion player who became mostly identified
with the Cuban band styles of charanga and conjunto, was extremely helpful to
me in my career. He provided me with the prototype bongo that I copied in 1962.
Later on he provided me with the proper dimensions for a tambora and later on
gave me the name of a distributor in Holland that enabled me to begin selling into
Europe. It was this same distributor, Alberto De Hond, that participated with me in
bringing the first Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble to Europe in 1979. I feel very
indebted to Pacheco

to be found at
http://content.congahead.com/archive/galleries/Fania/source/1.html
I finally bought the Supercussion Bongos at ebay. They resemble the early LPs indeed.
Well, I´ll let you know what the bongos are like as soon as I´ve got them.

Mike



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