by bongosnotbombs » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:31 pm
Then there is always the drum called the "Ricardo", obviously from Dezi Arnaz, who played Ricki Ricardo in "I Love Lucy"
from the drumdojo.com website..
In English, conga drum sizes are usually referred to as "tumba" for the largest, "conga" for the middle size and "quinto" for the smallest. You sometimes find an even smaller solo drum referred to as a "requinto" and the smallest conga of all is called a "Ricardo" conga which is about ashiko size and played to the player's side suspended from a shoulder strap. It was popularized in the band of Desi Arnaz in the 50s from which it more or less gets its name.
and also
Ben F. Jacoby's Introduction to the Conga Drum holds that the drums are called congas in English, but tumbadoras in Spanish. The drums, in order of size from largest to smallest, are the tumba, conga, quinto, the rare requinto, and the side-strap mounted ricardo.
I have read other references to the drum Dezi played, where it is described as a different shape than the modern ricardo which is basically a tiny conga, and there is a cool image of Dezi playing that drum somewhere else on the site, let me go find it.
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