weirdest bongo i ve ever seen

[skinslapper]

Sunday i ve bought ( for E 5 .00 that be about us 6.00) a verry strange old bongo on a flee market .
The skin is attached bij a hoop arround the rim and looks like the thing with wich you screw the nozzle on the end of your garden hose .
On the insides are 2 bars with a spindle through them witch ends in a ring.
You tune the bongo bij turning the spindle that pushes the rim outwards wich in turn tightens the skin .

The kettels are made of light and dark collored staves .

Is there anybody who knows anything about this bongo ?

Leedy 2 maybe ?

thanx in advace

[pcastag]

Pics would help!

[Mike]

That bongó sounds like nothing spectacular I am afraid, no more worth than 5 Euro indeed.
It appears to be the cheapo version of a "real" bongó, at least I have come across some
instruments like the one you mention, and, yes, they are playable, but that´s about it...
Could be an older Sonor model by the way.

[Anonimo]

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[skinslapper]

it is a sonor bongo made in germany . I just found a label on it !

i dont know how to post pictures

[Anonimo]

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[burke]

Hi SS,

If you have a digital camera or access to one its easypeasy. Save the picture somehere on your computer where you can find it (I'm simple and just use the desktop as a temporary location).
When you reply or compose a new message you will see two tabs below the box you type in:
Options (the default one open)
Next to it:
Upload attachment
Click that - then 'Browse"
find your picture in the box that opens
click 'open' in that box [the file 'path' will appear in the box next to 'Browse']
click 'add the file'
baddaboom - you are done - [if you have the software to do so - never hurts to shirnk the file size a bit - I try to keep them under a megabite - but if not ...should be ok]

now lets see this odd duck!

Cheers

Darrell

[Thomas Altmann]

Any similarity with the bongos in this ad (L841)?

A girl I knew had these. They hardly sound like bongos, the sound is weak, and the hurt the fingers.

Thomas

[skinslapper]

Yes the look the same as them (L841) but without this strange tune system !

[Thomas Altmann]

Hi skinslapper:

They had the tuning system that you described. The ones that I saw in the eighties had that, and the bongos in the picture have it, too: On the hembra you can see the mark of the metal ring under the skin. The only detail that differs is the metal band that holds the head in place. But I know the drums that you described fairly well.

Thomas

[skinslapper]

Thanks Thomas

You said in the 80 s you have seen them but were the alredy old at that time ? Any idea on there age?
And from wich year are these pictures ?

greets skinslapper

[Thomas Altmann]

The picture is from a 1979 Sonor catalogue. This could have been the first year of production, or one of the first.

Thomas

[davidpenalosa]

The Padre Miguel record on the floor in that photo is a hip recording. I can't make out the other record.
-David

[guarachon63]

The other one looks like a "sambas de endredo" from 1978, can't tell which school it is though. Kind of funny two batucada records in the midst of all that "latin" percussion.