JohnnyConga wrote:How I was taught to measure a Timbale stick was because we would by wooden dowls and cut our own sticks and measure from elbow to almost the tip of your fingers for the length. Why buy them in the music stores ,just go to any hardware store where they have wooden dowls and cut your own sticks it's much cheaper that way, fuggeddabout the "brand name" kind. do it the old fashioned way. Can any of these younger cats coming up, do anything on their own? Like cut there own sticks? put on their own heads?...Everything today is being handed to them without the experience of doing it yourself, a lost art of making your own timbale sticks....try it you'll save a ton of money....at your service...JC JOHNNY CONGA....
JohnnyConga wrote:I like my sticks about the same width and circumfrence as my pinky, maybe a hair thinner. But I have sticks for Charanga for heavy duty big band playing, all thicknesses actually......JC JOHNNY CONGA....
Why buy them in the music stores ,just go to any hardware store where they have wooden dowls and cut your own sticks it's much cheaper that way, fuggeddabout the "brand name" kind. do it the old fashioned way. Can any of these younger cats coming up, do anything on their own? Like cut there own sticks? put on their own heads?...Everything today is being handed to them without the experience of doing it yourself, a lost art of making your own timbale sticks....try it you'll save a ton of money....
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