Mounting congas

[hillsi]

Does anyone know of any quality congas (around the £500 mark) which you can mount on one stand. I appreciate that its the 'norm' to have bucket/basket stands but as im always moving around would really like to get a twin stand set?

cheers

[bongosnotbombs]

Almost congas from the big manufacturers like Meinl, Pearl and LP come with brackets for mounteing them to stand up stands as standard equipment.

The music store on my street has several models and brands from Meinl and LP, they all come with stand up brackets on them.

I'll leave the shopping up to you..



Edited By bongosnotbombs on 1190047474

[Whopbamboom]

Not all dual-conga stands are equal. LP has more than one model, for instance. I use the one that has the solid legs and the wheels, it's nice and heavy which has a lower center of gravity. I would think that a lighter stand could more easily tip on you when you are mounting your congas (the problem would be worst when you get one conga on and the weight is all on one side). Even my LP stand with the heavy base can tip if I mount the heavier conga first and I carelessly lean on it a little (I have LP Giovanni ash congas which are a little heavy). Since I discovered that the stand is lop-sided with one conga mounted (before I get the second one on to balance things out more), I now make sure that I mount the lighter of the two conga's first.
I will say this-- the two that I mount on my dual stand now are the conga and the quinto, and the conga by itself can tip the stand easier than the quinto. But, eventually I may pick up a requinto, and I may decide to pair that with the quinto... and pair the conga with the tumba. Then when I do that, the conga would be going on a stand before the tumba, and then I'll have the same situation again (the conga is heavy enough to make it susceptible to tipping if I'm not careful). I guess I'll have to be careful if I pair the conga with the tumba.
The point to this story though, is that you want as heavy of a stand as possible to cut down on the likelihood of it tipping when you have the first conga mounted. I don't get the feeling that the lighter stands would stay upright as well, but I haven't tried them and I suppose I could be wrong.
Just some food for thought.

Oh, and one other tidbit on the heavy-duty LP stand-- make sure that all wingnuts are in place and tightened up. I wondered what at least one wingnut was for, as it seemed to me to be redundant, but then I discovered that it is there to take some of the wiggling out of the stand. You'd only notice this if you paid attention to the way the stand acts when the wignut is tightened, vs. when it's left loose or removed.