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    What is your fav. hand drum?

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    My dashboard.

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    Mostly my computer desk these days......
    Gary

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    Buncha nutjobs!

    Conga for me Summer.

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    Welcome Summer!!!! My favorite hand drum..... I have bongos, but never really play them. From seeing the last few posts my favorite hand drum seems to be my work bench. I usually "drum" on a lot of things. Stupid fact. I find myself tapping rhythms on things like glass jar lids. lot of tones from them. Just a quirky thing I guess!

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    Welcome to Drum Chat Summer! I really like the conga drums as a hand drum, although I would settle for the bongos if it's a casual gathering. Other than that, anything under my hands will do!
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    congas

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    That's like asking me to pick my favorite daughter!

    I play bongos, congas, djembe, and doumbek regularly, but despite my member name, I love rockin' the congas!

    PB, you nailed it, bro'...anything under a hand drummer's hands will do!
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    My desk during Earth Science! But no, I love to play bongos/congas when I get the chance. I'd love to buy a set

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    What are most useful for me right now, are the bongos - but, that could easily change. I've been discovering what a huge range of sounds can be achieved via a tabla. I've been experimenting using a combination of African, Cuban, and Indian techniques on the bass tabla (as vs. treble), and it's incredibly flexible in tonality. I suspect that once I've really internalized all the sounds & how to get them, the tabla's going to be my drum of choice.

    I'd read a few people's statements that if you could only bring one drum to a gig instead of a full drum set, that it should be a djembe - and, believed it after playing djembe for a while - but, now I disagree. A bass tabla would be much more useful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scruffyeagle View Post
    What are most useful for me right now, are the bongos - but, that could easily change. I've been discovering what a huge range of sounds can be achieved via a tabla. I've been experimenting using a combination of African, Cuban, and Indian techniques on the bass tabla (as vs. treble), and it's incredibly flexible in tonality. I suspect that once I've really internalized all the sounds & how to get them, the tabla's going to be my drum of choice.

    I'd read a few people's statements that if you could only bring one drum to a gig instead of a full drum set, that it should be a djembe - and, believed it after playing djembe for a while - but, now I disagree. A bass tabla would be much more useful.
    Tablas are the only hand drums I have not played--and it sounds like you could spend a lifetime learning the technique--but I'd love to give them a shot, scruffy!
    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

    "There's a lot to be said for Time Honored tradition and value." --In memory of Frank "fiacovaz" Iacovazzi

    "Maybe your drums can be beat, but you can't."--Jack Keck

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    Quote Originally Posted by bongobro View Post
    Tablas are the only hand drums I have not played--and it sounds like you could spend a lifetime learning the technique--but I'd love to give them a shot, scruffy!
    I bought a set of moderate-grade tablas for about $100 via eBay, about 6 months ago. I really haven't used them very much, but I've been experimenting with using only one drum at a time. I had difficulty working with the standard Indian tabla techniques because of my arthritis, so I use mainly the Afro-Cuban techniques, with just a little bit of standard tabla strikes mixed in.

    I actually used the bass tabla about 2 weeks ago, sitting in with "Johnny Green and the Green Men" in the Thunderbird Lounge at the Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Casino. (Johnny's the guy who wrote & composed the original "Batman" theme.) I amplified the drum by hanging a mic on a boom arm pointing down at it from about a foot above it. I discovered that although I've been able to use the drum to good effect in a home setting, being on stage with all the monitors going made the drum very hard for me to listen to for the sake of controlling its many sounds. I think a starting point is for me to work with it much more, to internalize the nuances of the sounds it can make. Then, I need to figure out some method of personal monitoring for what I'm doing as vs. the sounds made by the rest of the band. The monitoring setup needs to be subtle enough that people won't focus on its presence, and easy enough to set up that it could be done in 5 minutes flat in such a way that an average band on a moderately small stage wouldn't be bothered by it.

    Re. tabla: A bass tabla is usually a metal drum, as vs. the wood-bodied treble tabla. Its shape is like a cooking kettle, but with a small flattened area at its base so the drum won't roll over sideways. When being played in a traditional manner, tablas usually rest on small padded rings, for being stable. The heads are held in place tensioned by rawhide straps. The skins are usually (I think) cowhide, and have 3 layers of skin. The bottom 2 layers are full size over the opening, and the 3rd layer is cut to form a ring around the edge of the drumhead. There's a round black spot (offset from center, on the bass tabla), that's made by a special paste that's rubbed & hardened onto the surface of the skin. When reading up about tablas, I read that it's made from a "secret recipe" - but, that it does involve metal filings gathered from along railroad tracks. The tabla is a very musical drum, and the metal bass tabla (the only one I've experimented with, so far) is capable of a wide variety of sounds; everything from metallic pings to dull thumps, to knocking on wood sounds. If you're looking for a way to enhance the variety of percussive sounds you can make, I think the tablas are a great & relatively inexpensive way to do it.

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    Conga conga
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    Congas for me!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Summer View Post
    What is your fav. hand drum?
    Cajon.
    I enjoy the Meinl string cajon.

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    Wow, those are sweet!

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    My Conga drum. I'm not sure about the bongos yet until I get the skins...when I put them on I will let you know if the bongos are more fun than the congas.
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