by pavloconga » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:26 am
With a bugarabou, I think a lot depends on the thickness of the skin. I have a bugarabou that I bought in Ghana.
It had a skin a little thicker than a djembe on it and therefore needed technique more like on a djembe. I later had it re-skinned by a drummer from The Gambia who put a very thick skin on it for me (like a conga skin). After that it felt a lot more like a conga and needed a more conga like technique. Even then, the feel of the drum still felt like something in between a djembe and a conga. Beautiful drum by the way.
BTW like I said in the discussion in the vid thread above, the drums in that vid don't look like bugarabous to me. They look more like sabar drums (or related), which are quite different again. As I understand it, bugarabous do not have the horizontal tuning pegs like those in the video. But instead are strung like a djembe and have a similar shape to djembe but narrower.
Edited By pavloconga on 1202110772