jorge wrote:By the way, isn't that kids' conga de latas video great? Living proof that it is more about the drummer than the drum, although it is not just any kids. Here is another video of Lucumi playing quinto before he was 10, he plays more than most of us adults.
RitmoBoricua wrote:As far as "las latas" I know people too that created their first set of bongos from tin cans.
I thought one of the bata players look like the late great Pancho Quinto.
jorge wrote:. Lucumi was a star student of Tata Guines and Pancho Quinto, amazingly talented child prodigy who was mentored by the best of the best. Not sure what he is doing now, 18 years after those videos, but I have not heard good things about his attitude as he got older.
Jerry Bembe wrote:Brake Drum is used as the main time keeper for large Steel Bands in Trinidadvand Tobago. These are bands of 100-200 playing Steel Pan. The Brake Drum is a position of honor and a dangerous one if not played well. People have been attacked for messing up in ths position for Panarama (national Steel Band competition).
A Brake Drum can be tuned like a tounge drum by cutting the top into sections of different sized tounges. Most people just play te Brake Drum in its natural whole form.
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