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Sunday i ve bought ( for E 5 .00 that be about us 6.00) a verry strange old bongo on a flee market .
The skin is attached bij a hoop arround the rim and looks like the thing with wich you screw the nozzle on the end of your garden hose .
On the insides are 2 bars with a spindle through them witch ends in a ring.
You tune the bongo bij turning the spindle that pushes the rim outwards wich in turn tightens the skin .

The kettels are made of light and dark collored staves .

Is there anybody who knows anything about this bongo ?

Leedy 2 maybe ?

thanx in advace

Pics would help!

That bongó sounds like nothing spectacular I am afraid, no more worth than 5 Euro indeed.
It appears to be the cheapo version of a "real" bongó, at least I have come across some
instruments like the one you mention, and, yes, they are playable, but that´s about it...
Could be an older Sonor model by the way.

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it is a sonor bongo made in germany . I just found a label on it !

i dont know how to post pictures

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Hi SS,

If you have a digital camera or access to one its easypeasy. Save the picture somehere on your computer where you can find it (I'm simple and just use the desktop as a temporary location).
When you reply or compose a new message you will see two tabs below the box you type in:
Options (the default one open)
Next to it:
Upload attachment
Click that - then 'Browse"
find your picture in the box that opens
click 'open' in that box [the file 'path' will appear in the box next to 'Browse']
click 'add the file'
baddaboom - you are done - [if you have the software to do so - never hurts to shirnk the file size a bit - I try to keep them under a megabite - but if not ...should be ok]

now lets see this odd duck!

Cheers

Darrell

Any similarity with the bongos in this ad (L841)?



A girl I knew had these. They hardly sound like bongos, the sound is weak, and the hurt the fingers.

Thomas

Yes the look the same as them (L841) but without this strange tune system !

Hi skinslapper:

They had the tuning system that you described. The ones that I saw in the eighties had that, and the bongos in the picture have it, too: On the hembra you can see the mark of the metal ring under the skin. The only detail that differs is the metal band that holds the head in place. But I know the drums that you described fairly well.

Thomas

Thanks Thomas

You said in the 80 s you have seen them but were the alredy old at that time ? Any idea on there age?
And from wich year are these pictures ?

greets skinslapper

The picture is from a 1979 Sonor catalogue. This could have been the first year of production, or one of the first.

Thomas

The Padre Miguel record on the floor in that photo is a hip recording. I can't make out the other record.
-David

The other one looks like a "sambas de endredo" from 1978, can't tell which school it is though. Kind of funny two batucada records in the midst of all that "latin" percussion.