Espresso wrote:Hi congueros
I would place the following question: what size of congas do You usually use ?
To be honest: different ones , in my funk band
I like the nice contrast of an 11" quinto & 12.5 tumba,
whereas the 11.75 and 12.5" combo is very appropiate for
what you might call the traditional setup.
But then, what is traditional, especially when it comes to multi-drum conga setups...
Espresso wrote:I find a lot of second hand congas set composed mainly of quinto and conga as size , and also a several master conguero that use the quinto as main drum.
Apart from those questionable and often rather cheap quinto & conga combinations
you find in commercial ads which might reflect the lack of knowledge of the seller:
In an eclectic, not purely traditional rumba world anything goes and yes,
many master congueros have a quinto at the center of their setup, like
Angá had in his 5-drum setup. Nothing wrong with that at all!
Espresso wrote: May be quinto is easyer to get slap ?
Maybe, yes.
Many will say that you should learn how to perform slaps an 11.75"
first before you move on to a quinto.
Honestly, that is not how I had done it when I started playing congas,
but it makes sense to me.
And last but not least, it is not alway about sizes, but sound of different
skins as well, for example a rather low tuned set of conga and tumba
can be very cool t emulate the sound of old school recordings.