old cuban bongo.

[el-pulpo59]

hello guys,

does anybody has got an idea of the origin of my bongo?
i received it ,as a present,in cuba ten years ago from my friend raul'lali'gonzales (one of the first members of "clave y guaguanco").
he told me that it was very old.

greetings.

apologize for my bad english cause i'm french...

[el-pulpo59]

another picture.



i've change the lugs and i've made covering new all the metal parts.

[Omelenko1]

They look like early SONOCS, made in the Fernanado Ortiz factory at Calzada Del Cerro, the neighborhood in La Habana where I was born. They look to be from the late 70's and must sound real good. I can tell they are SONOCS from the hardware. The look very "criollo" (authentically Cuban). Nice treasure!

Dario

[el-pulpo59]

thank you!they sound good but i consider the hembra a little bit smole for me.
anyway it's a very nice object.

to keep preciously.