"only a mother could love"

[burke]

I showed my new hideous baby (see “Also Mexican?”). Now its your turn. Got an uglier drum that mine - lets see it!

I have thrown down the gauntlet!!

[blango]

http://picasaweb.google.com/taikonoatama/YellowConga/

thankfully, its not mine.... :laugh:

Tony

[traumtyp]

UPS!! :O this yellow conga is so ugly blango!!

[buckoh]

I couldn't take this anymore! Meet Fugly

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[CongaTick]

buckoh, You win!!!

[blango]

What the Buck!!!

Man, what smells in here? Can someone take out the trash??

T

[burke]

yeah ... but how do they sound?

[blango]

aaah :laugh:

I had a feeling it would sound great with some work.

how cool James. does it still look as perty?

Tony

[bongosnotbombs]

I thought we decided it was originally built that way?

Xavier Cugat thought they were cool enough to put on his album...



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[burke]

It must sound good - its a high fidelity record.

seriously though - cool cover

[taikonoatama]

I thought we decided it was originally built that way?

Well, what we know is that the yellow drum came with an old painted-over eye bolt at the top and a matching hole in-line at the bottom, which implies a tackhead (they used to often wear them across the shoulders with a strap). And there are no normally positioned holes in the shell for side plates. That hardware is really heavy and bulky (though the shell much thinner than a modern conga, and not heavy) - there's no way this drum, with the hardware, would ever be played carrried with a top-to-bottom strap. There's way too much paint to see evidence of any old holes that might have been used for tacks, though. So we don't know for sure, but the evidence points to reconfigured tackhead.

James

[bongosnotbombs]

Yeah if only these drums could tell the stories of what they have been through.

[blango]

Yea, thats right bombs, thanks for the reminder.

That one was one of the first with metal tunable hardware.

First generation of metal hardware, a design that didnt fly!!

Its cool, as james has a set of Bongo from Cuba with some of the first hardware made for bongo.

Tony