Re: What Would You Do????
Tough call indeed, bro'...but a lot of it may also depend on how much gigging you do, if you're doing any gigging at all. I have two pair of bongos and five congas, but I leave one pair of bongos and three congas at church since that's my steadiest gig. The other bongos and congas stay at home so I can keep my chops up and enable me to have 'em ready should I want to jam with my buddies...otherwise my church drums would be moved around much more than they need to!
If you need congas, get the best ones you can afford (yeah, man, that's easy to say). Otherwise I'd go with PB and try to keep both the bongos. Outside of us serious congueros y bongoseros, people aren't buyin' hand drums right now. If you were to sell one of the bongos right now, you might not get the price ya want, especially for the JDRs. On the other hand, keep your eyes and ears open, and your hands ready to play, and you might score a good deal...
Buena suerte, hermano!
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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"Maybe your drums can be beat, but you can't."--Jack Keck
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