L4C, there were indeed Giovanni Galaxy congas before the current Giovanni series. They were fiberglass congas, usually in black with an intense gold sparkle finish to them and gold hardware. Gretschhead, I always thought the Giovanni Galaxies were a TOL unto themselves and not a subseries of the Galaxy range, but I could be mistaken...but about three years ago, LP came out with the Giovannis that most of us drool over...and those, of course, are wood congas.
Given LP's track record for switching head sizes, the "old Giovanni" heads (read Giovanni Galaxy) may be a bit smaller than the current models, but I thought they were all the same size...supposedly the shell was a little taller (deeper) than the standard LPs, and they sounded richer than your basic model...
I have an old LP catalog from the early 90s, but I can't put my hands on it at the moment (ugh, man, BAD PUN!!!)...I will double-check this later today (Tuesday) and if I'm incorrect, I will put up the corrected info...
Somebody thinkin' of some Gios?
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