Re: Bobby Allende Congas
Originally Posted by
luv4congas
Bongobro,
If you still have your CP Flesh whoop take some thin fabric like an old T shirt and practice reskining with that. Put the whoop over the fabric, put the rim over both with the fabric pulled between the flesh whoop and the rim. Mounted on the drum and connect your lugs. Pull the excess out and practice cutting the excess with a sharp blade. Protect the fabric closes to the drum. I use an old gift card. Now it's the same with flat skins but you have to soak the skins. Hope this helps. Another option that I've done was to find a bigger pre mounted head, soaked it and skinned a smaller drum.
L4C.
Thanks for the tip...it'll be mighty helpful...now just waiting on the skin to come in...
Originally Posted by
Te1985
Here's another thought that just came to mind Red1: if you're going to gig with your drums a lot...you may want to think about it: Do you want your pretty Giovanni's getting dinged and abused? My Matadors would get dinged up on-stage! I've accidently bumped a drum with my leg during sound check and watched it tumble off a 2' stage riser onto the lower stage! OUCH!!!
anyway....see ya, from the land of Aloha!
Red1 -- If you do nothin' else, man, get some heavy-duty conga bags! My black CPs never saw the inside of a bag--and frankly, they look like they've been used for target practice with dings and chips in the finish. They look like but they still sound pretty good after 21 years. Although keeping the congas in one place is no guarantee they won't stay unmarked, either...my red wood CPs get bumped and rattled every so often even though they're in one spot in the music area of my church...funny thing is how my Pancho Sanchez tumba looks pretty much the way I bought it (other than the obvious signs of it being played loudly and proudly!)...
Good luck on your purchase, mate!
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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