These solid shell spalted hickory bongos were made with wood sourced from Athens, GA. They feature our handmade stainless steel hardware and horse and steer skins.
Wood: spalted hickory from Athens, GA
Height: 6-3/8″
Width: 7-1/4″ macho, 8-5/8″ hembra
Bridge: zebra wood with red coral and magnesite inlay
Skins: 1mm horse on macho, 1.6mm steer on hembra
Hardware: 304 stainless steel, half round Moderna crown
Weight: 12.5 lbs
This PreMounted™ Middle Eastern Steer Matched Set is a live one with controlled overtones. Tone, color, finish and feel are as closely matched as possible. Available now.
Skin Type: Middle Eastern Steer, our shop favorite
Skin Color: Blonde
Crown Type: Comfort Curve 1 (Soft Strike)
11” Quinto Skin Thickness: 1.8mm
11.75″ Conga Skin Thickness: 2mm
12.5″ Tumba Skin Thickness: 2.2mm
Sound: warm and classic with crisp slaps, round open tones, rich bass, controlled overtones
Feel: medium action, very smooth and somewhat supple playing surface, ideal for live and studio
This PreMounted™ Fat Cat™ Matched Set is artfully crafted with close attention to detail. This ensures the tone, color, finish and feel are as closely matched as possible. Available now.
Skin Type: Fat Cat™ Nili Ravi Water Buffalo (Middle East)
Skin Color: Blonde
Crown Type: Comfort Curve 2 (X)
11” Quinto Skin Thickness: 2.8mm
11.75″ Conga Skin Thickness: 2.9mm
12.5″ Tumba Skin Thickness: 3mm
Sound: dry/woody tones
Feel: low action, smooth and dense playing surface, ideal for folkloric styles
Is the distance between the top of the crown and top of the playing surface “neck height” or “collar height” in your mind?
Let’s say you need a flesh hoop for a traditional crown. We can fabricate a new 304 stainless steel flesh hoop based on the outside diameter of the crown. A properly sized flesh hoop will be slightly larger than the crown, in most cases 3/16″.
This set is made of locally and sustainably sourced spalted poplar wood from Athens, GA. Each drum begins as a solid log and is painstakingly hollowed and turned on our custom built conga lathe. Spalting is the process of naturally coloring the wood using certain fungi and is accomplished here in our shop. The inlays are made of natural turquoise, lapis lazuli and magnesite stone. The bottoms are protected by a clear polymer foot which will not mark or scratch floors.
This set is built to be tonally matched to sing together and the internal geometry of each drum is individually designed to bring out the best possible tones from the drums. The skins have been meticulously chosen to match the harmonics of the shells and to create a symbiosis of sound across the entire set.
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Tumba
Skin: 2.3mm amber Middle Eastern steer
Playing Surface: 13-3/8″ diameter
Height: 30″
Weight: 29 pounds
Hardware: 304 stainless steel 6-lug half round Moderna crown, heavy duty 3/8″ tuning lugs
Conga
Skin: 2.1mm amber Middle Eastern steer
Playing Surface: 12″ diameter
Height: 30″
Weight: 26 pounds
Hardware: 304 stainless steel 6-lug half round Moderna crown, heavy duty 3/8″ tuning lugs
Quinto
Skin: 1.9mm amber Middle Eastern steer
Playing Surface: 10-7/8″ diameter
Height: 30″
Weight: 24 pounds
Hardware: 304 stainless steel 5-lug half round Moderna crown, heavy duty 3/8″ tuning lugs
Requinto
Skin: 1.8mm amber Middle Eastern steer
Playing Surface: 9-3/4″ diameter
Height: 30″
Weight: 21 pounds
Hardware: 304 stainless steel 5-lug half round Moderna crown, heavy duty 3/8″ tuning lugs
This PreMounted™ Middle Eastern Steer Matched Set is artfully crafted with close attention to detail. This ensures the tone, color, finish and feel are as closely matched as possible. Available now.
Skin Type: Steer (Middle East)
Skin Color: Blonde
Crown Type: Traditional
11” Quinto Skin Thickness: 1.8mm
11.75″ Conga Skin Thickness: 2mm
12.5″ Tumba Skin Thickness: 2.2mm
Sound: crisp slaps, round open tones, rich bass, controlled overtones, warm and classic, ideal for live and studio, our shop favorite
Feel: medium action, very smooth and somewhat supple playing surface
We are offering a 20% discount on ELH Bells, beautifully handmade by Sr. Evelio Llamas Hernandez in San Francisco, California! These campanas have such an absolutely pure tone and are very well made. We have three pitch options: a high pitched bell tuned to C#, a middle pitch tuned to A and low pitch tuned to G, as well as mountable Chacha and Mambo. Enter Promo Code ELH20 at checkout until 6.22.22.
Determining flesh hoop size can be easily calculated. Subtracting the skin thickness from the outside diameter of the head accurately yields the size of the flesh hoop inside the skin. It’s important to note that the skin thickness is multiplied by two [outside diameter of head – (skin thickness x 2) = flesh hoop size]. Let’s say we have a head with an outside diameter of 12-1/4″ and a 1/16″ skin. A 1.6mm skin is roughly 1/16″ thick. So we have 1/8″ of skin. 12-1/4″ – (1/16″ x 2) = 12-1/8″
A spalted requinto, quinto, conga and tumba are nearly ready. The steer skins are drying, and Ryan has finished the feet. These are going to be one fine set! A video demo will follow.