Great mco, I checked that site... very very interesting!!! it also gives you an idea of how wide is percussions world, and how much we all owe to Mother Africa.
Anyway, if you are interested in handcrafted drums, check this out:
VR Percussioni - it's all in Italian, anyway you wil see very beatiful congas made of the finest woods, finest handcraft, finest hardware and finest heads. For instance, they point out that they are only now using the wood they bought 15 years ago. Another very interesting feature is an electroacustic system they apply to some of their drums: you can see on one picture some wires coming out from the bottom of the shells of a set of congas: there's an internal miking system. As i stated in a previous post, unfortunately the prices are almost unaffordable, a normal conga can cost something like $ 900..
Well let me know what do you think about ...