As seen on Ebay - Unusual conga

[bdrbongo]

Check this thing out(as if you hadn't already). Looks to be in great condition. Wish I was in the market for it just to have it.

[url=http://cgi.ebay.com/BASS-CONGA-GON-BOPS-old-ORIG-2-headed-RARE-CA-made_W0QQitemZ300203371194QQihZ020QQcategory
Z38093QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]http://cgi.ebay.com/BASS-CO....iewItem[/url]

[zumbi]

it would make a perfect "floor tom" in a drumset made of hand drums...

[Thomas Altmann]

Hi,

this "Conga Bass" is actually comparable to the so called cocktail drumsets. In my 1976 Gon Bops catalogue it is depicted with a mounted bass drum pedal and inverted beater mechanism from below. A special device attached to two of the legs holds the pedal in place. The text said: "Add a new dimension to your playing. Add a Conga Bass. Provided with bass drum pedal, tone control and tunable hardware. Please specify color. (Finished in fiberglass only.)" The price at that time was 335,50 Dollars plus 27,- Dollars for the "Conga Bass pedal bracket".

Thomas



Edited By Thomas Altmann on 1204422526

[Mike]

I wonder if you can realy get a satisfactory deep, fat, bassconga sound out that? ???
I listened to one of those cocktail drumsets in a club and I can´t say that it was a mind-boggling experience... :p

Anyone who has played one though?

Cheers
Mike

[bdrbongo]

It must have been what inspired Trilok Gurtu's Remo line.

http://www.remo.com/forum....1&ppg=1

[Thomas Altmann]

Man, that's the most far-out setup I've ever seen. I haven't seen Trilok but once, although he was living in or around Hamburg (I don't know whether he still does); but he must be VERY original!

Anyway, that's what the "Conga Bass" looked like.

Thomas

[guarachon63]

Thomas Altmann wrote:

The price at that time was 335,50 Dollars plus 27,- Dollars for the "Conga Bass pedal bracket".

...or a whopping $1,380.70 in 2007 dollars, according to the inflation calculator. I wonder how many of those things they sold...

[Mike]

Slightly off-topic: Check out the following setup by Daniel Diaz from RITMO ORIENTAL from the 1970s...

Here´s some information from http://www.timba.com/artists/ritmo/index.asp

"Unlike Changuito and Irakere's drummers, Bernardo García and Enrique Pla, Daniel Díaz never used a kick drum. He employed a very unusual percussion setup with a foot pedal playing the largest bell, a snare drum, and a wide assortment of timbales, toms and bells arranged in unorthodox fashion."

Attachment: http://mycongaplace.com/forum/eng/uploa ... _setup.jpg

[Whopbamboom]

Did anyone here buy the GonBop cocktail conga?

If so, how does it sound? And what is the wood?