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It ws my understanding that the early son did not have congas either, much like some of the puerto rican jibaro music.
PC

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Cuco, Thank you for posting that! Great music and nice bongos too. They look like the ones I got from you - that Matt Smith has for almost a year now.

YouTube is blocked in Turkey - have to go through some very complicated proxies to see it. But this one was sure worth it

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These were made for me by 'Cambrón Jr.' I brought them back from Cuba in the mid 1990's.
http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2009/11/cambron-jr-vol-1-vol-2-changui-cuba.html

Four pages of liner notes/information on Changüi by the late restpected musicologo 'Danilo Orozco Gonzalez'
http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2009/05/grupo-changui-de-guantanamo-changui-y.html

Markito

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I had a set that I brought from the daughter of Afredo Bologña Jiménez these bongo she had in a closet for close to 40 years after his death .I brought them and had them a few years and sold them to Psych1 a little over a year. Afredo had a sextet back 1920's in Cuba named Sexteto Bologna later in became Sexteto National. Here is a photo of them some one had damaged shells to put hardware on them fully solid sheels.

Beautifull looking drums/shells, just imagine all the gigs those must have played and how many times they were tuned "por candela".
I have seen them before on your page/s. ("Alfredo Bologña Jiménez"...that's like owning a tres that belonged to Arsenio)
Here's a foto of an older well played pair.
And a weird foto of a Changüisero en Guantanamo.... pouring water into one drum... maybe he took a "hot solo" and wants to cool them down? Agua!! LoL!!

Markito

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"Un Changüi En Yateras"
http://www.divshare.com/direct/11793322-ca5.mp3

Markito

[quote="leedy2"]Many years ago before my father turned it a bass player he was a bongo player for Rafael Hernandez (Cuarteto Victora) later played conga drum's . In an explanation once he gave me regarding playing Changui music why a bongo player played in that fashion .The response was they played that way years ago because there was no conga drum so the bongo player had to fill in gaps of conga drum . And here you have an example of what he men,t very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N53o9rFn0EU

That was beautiful, the group and bongocero are fantastic.
The instrument with the metal keys reminds me of instruments I saw in Ghana in West Africa.

What a fabulous historical thread! Seems like these early bongoceros played what is now considered the quinto "spots".
Loved the vids! Thanks so much!

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leedy2 wrote: It's a marimbola (Puerto Rico) or marímbula (Cuba), or rumba box (Jamaica).

That is a nice looking one.
I had one my dad bought for me in 1978, it was made in Jamaica, he found it in an old music store in Manhattan.
Back In 1987 I needed the money... I sold it to 'Luis Conte', he has a photo of it on the cover of his last CD:
http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2008/04/terceto-yoyo-photo-cuba-1920s.html

I regret selling it, you know how it is sometimes.

Markito

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