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Obviously the skin, size and technique have a lot to do with teh sound of a drum, but what about wood , does anybody who's played a lot fo different drums have some opinions on different wood sounds?

My observations are as such

Oak- dry and bright with a lot of high end
cherry- warm and sustaining- not so bright on the slaps
ash- bit warmer than oak, but bright slaps
phillippine mahog- dry, warm
cedar- ?
Carribbean mahogany- best sounding wood for congas to my ear, warm and fat like cherry, but with tight bright slaps.
PC

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What brand uses carribbean mahogany?

Dangler wrote:What brand uses carribbean mahogany?

Isla uses Honduran Mahogany.

Some old cuban drums, juniors, old mopercs, and currently islas. Some honduran some caoba ( basically mahogany).
PC

The only congas I know really well are my Gon Bops. I have an oak set and a mahogany set both from the early 70's and they sound really different.

But, I also have a mahogany Gon Bops conga from the 60's. Same everything (except the sticker & side plates) but 10 years age difference and it has a very different sound - deeper and richer - sounds like a bigger drum.

I also had a different Gon Bops oak conga, same size, that I got rid of because it had a dead sound.

I believe Different tree - different wood

Mahogany LOVE

Well, I got my cuban cedar conga up and running today, it's got a very nice sound, thin skin, the original owner said it was goat, but it's not as thin as a djembe goat skin, more like a think cow. Tight typical cuban sounding slap, little bit of ring on the open tone, solid bass. It's going to be great for guiros and rumbas.
PC