Great video. In the early 1960s I put new heads on bongos using the same method following the advise from my drum teacher EWB III. Bought the unmounted heads from Silver and Horlands drum shop on lower 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, NYC. Sounded so good a guy traded a quinto congo for them. Own LP bongo at present.
Just got 2 LP skins for Christmas! I had no idea what to do, but thanks to your video, I got them on and drying with very little trouble. (good thing I did the larger one first as I made a mistake and was able to salvage it and re-use it on the smaller head). Thanks for the tutorial - Short and to the point. Excellent source!
Excellent idea to start the job with 'La Hembra'(the big one)and,then, to fix 'El Macho (small one).We all,one day or the other,have spoiled a skin.As I had the opportunity,long time ago, to listen to Mongo Santamaria and Armando Perrazza(,my uncle's friends) playing very very complicated and very very good on a single tumba or quinto,I know realise that the main reason why some percussionist buy a five pièces conga-set is that it gives them 4 possibilities to reuse the same skin!!! Unfortunately,The problem remains to look for (and buy) a new skin for 'La Hembra' that can be tuned with a thicker 'Macho' skin.Anyway,it 's very often possible.... and what a pity to throw a good new skin away! Xmas father ( or las Orichas) could have blame you for doing this. Take care and have fun mounting skins and playing bongoes. ACHE
That demonstration was exceedingly informative for me and you have my respect for that. Can anyone direct me to more info about the percussion instrument with the stick hanging on the inside please while excusing my ignorance on the matter.
This video clearly couldn't be better made! (From LP,what could you expect..)Good shooting and very complete explanations,very clearly stated,lots of détails you surely wouldn't have thougt of before having mounted lot of skins on différents hand drums.I'm now 64,never been a professionnal but started at the age of 12 to observe and help my uncle to make hand drums from bongos to congas to batas..in his garage ( He so became a friend of Mongo Santamaria,Armando Perazza,Ray Barreto,Changito and many many others great percussionists)No need to be very handskilled or very strong.Try to do it by yourself ..No doubt that this video will be a perfect help for bigginers .If you just follow this video,you can't fail Unless I do considered'selling already ringged'skins is a very good idea,I do encourage any percussionnist (whatever his level his strenth,his handskill) to,at least once in a life, mount a new skin (raw skin is better) on a conga,bongo...shell or drum he will play later (or,better,.very soon)..What a pleasure it is to feel the wet skin in hands ,to see tiny water drops getting out of it,to smell it,to notice how much sound changes during the skin drying .I told you,it's a pleasure that could only be compared to the one of playing hand drum.Without offensing LP people (cause these worlds have been used by onother good brand) 'Skin on skin',these were Mongos'worlds',and may I add skin on wood ? (As 'The Master'was able to make much much more music,to produce much more different sounds on a stool than some 'gifted' percusionists on a five well tuned congas set,I also had the opportunity to meet.!!! DEEP CONGRATULATIONS FROM FRANCE. .For me,THIS VIDEO IS REALLY THE ONE. TO SEE
Good informative presentation - I would just like to know if anyone can offer me advice as when I am tuning my newish LP bongoes, especially on the macho, one pair of opposite lugs need tightening so much more than the other pair on which the nuts are barely past the end. I have tried turning the head and rim around but am still trying to offset the position of the lugs so that one is next to the block joining the two drums to keep it comfortable to play while sitting, Any help would be really appreciated,
Los mejores parches para grabar son de cuero de mula. Ahora existen los parches sintéticos de remo. Ya que el cuero sufre con el clima, los parches remo no. No se desafínan jamás. Yo recomiendo remo tucked fiberskyn.
I bought a preform rawhide congas head and can't return it since it's been year since I bought it.. found out it's too big ..can I soak it in water for 8 hrs and reform it again?
I have a 1930's vintage Ludwig bass drum. The outside diameter of the drum shell is 27 1/2 ". I need to replace the two heads with 27 1/2 " bass drum heads. Do yo have access to these? Thanks
Lololo! I know. Amigo !! That is hurt to do that job , but at that time we havnt enought money to buy a LP skin! U know , but watch now , right now some company make the special skins to play llatin percussion ! Those materials are plastic or sintétic skins ? ! Is X-RAY. !! Lolo! Understand .
Es verdad.Por favor,preguntale al senor Gordoba en Habana (Y hay muchos muchos otros mas que conocen bien la cosa) de hacer una video en Cubano,( y otra en castillano para la gente que no tiene posibilidad de reducir la velocidad del video para entender!!!)'.Hay que hacer esfuersos'.Desde nino,vosotros han apprendido el languaje de los tambores y,nosotros europeos hemos aprendido el Ingles.Vosotros seis los musicos,nosotros volvemos los que cambian las pieles.Ha mucho cambiada la cosa desde el tiempo de la colonia,desde la epoca del criolo frances de las tumbas francesas,.......Y,sabes que ?,mis amigos africanos no entienden tu deso.Hacen todo,todo antes de ....comunicar...Hablaban tantos idiomas diferentes que piensaron a comunicar empleando los tambores.Ahora,los africanos cambian las pieles,tocan tambores con los ojos cerados y seguimos aprendiendo el idioma del vecino para comunicar y disfrutarnos juntos; Que circolo! Mucho ACHE desde vieja Europa.
Maybe you're right (posible que tiene razon..)but what exactly do you mean by fixing much better?You do it faster,you better choose your skins,you always know the precise sound you will get before mounting a skin on a shell?you have much more experience because you spend more time to change skins than to play hand drums?Maybe you are more gifted than he's,why not after all? The fact is that,as I said previously,this Young guy knows how to do it ,He is very clear when stating how to do it,he gives us lots of détails I wouldn't probably have though of.He doesn't tell us it's difficult (and,I do agree!) .He doen't polute camera shooting.So Mr good looking Georges Clooney,from a Young LP specialist,what did you expect???That's sufficent for me,(an old 64 years old guy who had the great pleasure at the age of 12 to observe and help my uncle when he made congas for his friendsManos Mongo,Armando,Ray,Changuito..,who,lately, met Gordoba in Havana to observe how he made my own bongoes .Manos fuertes y cabeza que no permite llevar sombrero (demaciado grande) Mucho Ache a ti 'Yo soy el unico,yo soy el terrooooor,yo soy el mejooor'.Por favor'.Sigue montando pieles antes quel sonido de la hembra no deje expresarse al macho PS;Puede ser que la gente del Sr Martin COHEN estan buscando a aguien que tiene conocimiento.Quien sabe?
Amigo ! Sorry about the comment but do u can mount a XRay n the macho bongos yes?? That happen years ago when the skin from X factor made in USA WAS So xpensive!! I was using the X-ray plastic paper in congas ans bingos , blive me the was sound great !! So te problem was. How can u put X-ray n u bongos ,? That is a work my friend , I m not offending you , ok thansk ,. I stil with my X-ray n my bongos
Hello man.Sorry to have been a bit rude with you.My apologises for my ridiculous comment about the way you dress on your picture as ,function of where I personnaly have to live,I realise that I have myself been dressing like a businessman or a native Tahitian.( When in Havana,I didn't dress in Tropicana like I did in La Tropical or Los Pinos or Pogoloti) But,back to Bongoes...I'm happy to be informed that you already mounted Xrays fims on the Macho.I remember to have played Cuban'so mounted' bongoes.They sounded so fantastic (when plated by Cubans,of course) ...so,when back to France I had (I really couldn't help me..)tried to mount one Xray sheet on my own macho. ( Using a double speed electrical hair-heater).,then,in order to get an even sharper,I did it with a very nice looking transparent blue plastic
Great video. In the early 1960s I put new heads on bongos using the same method following the advise from my drum teacher EWB III. Bought the unmounted heads from Silver and Horlands drum shop on lower 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, NYC. Sounded so good a guy traded a quinto congo for them. Own LP bongo at present.
By far the best video on this procedure .
Thanks !
very Useful ...I saw finally how to fix my conga heads by professionals .. thanx
That is a great instructional video! I've always wanted to know how to mount a skin on my drums. Good stuff, thanks for posting this!
Best video out there. Muchas gracias. I have lp wood bongos and meinl fiberglass bongos that need head replacement. Gonna go with leather skins.
Just got 2 LP skins for Christmas! I had no idea what to do, but thanks to your video, I got them on and drying with very little trouble. (good thing I did the larger one first as I made a mistake and was able to salvage it and re-use it on the smaller head).
Thanks for the tutorial - Short and to the point. Excellent source!
Excellent idea to start the job with 'La Hembra'(the big one)and,then, to fix 'El Macho (small one).We all,one day or the other,have spoiled a skin.As I had the opportunity,long time ago, to listen to Mongo Santamaria and Armando Perrazza(,my uncle's friends) playing very very complicated and very very good on a single tumba or quinto,I know realise that the main reason why some percussionist buy a five pièces conga-set is that it gives them 4 possibilities to reuse the same skin!!! Unfortunately,The problem remains to look for (and buy) a new skin for 'La Hembra' that can be tuned with a thicker 'Macho' skin.Anyway,it 's very often possible.... and what a pity to throw a good new skin away! Xmas father ( or las Orichas) could have blame you for doing this. Take care and have fun mounting skins and playing bongoes. ACHE
That demonstration was exceedingly informative for me and you have my respect for that. Can anyone direct me to more info about the percussion instrument with the stick hanging on the inside please while excusing my ignorance on the matter.
THANKS LP AND ESPECIALLY FOR THIS GUY!!! 👏👏👏👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
How in the works I go from listening to Congo drums to replacing heads
It definitely got me interested
nice! Thank you. I have a couple of drums I will fix now!
Great video!
This video clearly couldn't be better made! (From LP,what could you expect..)Good shooting and very complete explanations,very clearly stated,lots of détails you surely wouldn't have thougt of before having mounted lot of skins on différents hand drums.I'm now 64,never been a professionnal but started at the age of 12 to observe and help my uncle to make hand drums from bongos to congas to batas..in his garage ( He so became a friend of Mongo Santamaria,Armando Perazza,Ray Barreto,Changito and many many others great percussionists)No need to be very handskilled or very strong.Try to do it by yourself ..No doubt that this video will be a perfect help for bigginers .If you just follow this video,you can't fail Unless I do considered'selling already ringged'skins is a very good idea,I do encourage any percussionnist (whatever his level his strenth,his handskill) to,at least once in a life, mount a new skin (raw skin is better) on a conga,bongo...shell or drum he will play later (or,better,.very soon)..What a pleasure it is to feel the wet skin in hands ,to see tiny water drops getting out of it,to smell it,to notice how much sound changes during the skin drying .I told you,it's a pleasure that could only be compared to the one of playing hand drum.Without offensing LP people (cause these worlds have been used by onother good brand) 'Skin on skin',these were Mongos'worlds',and may I add skin on wood ? (As 'The Master'was able to make much much more music,to produce much more different sounds on a stool than some 'gifted' percusionists on a five well tuned congas set,I also had the opportunity to meet.!!! DEEP CONGRATULATIONS FROM FRANCE. .For me,THIS VIDEO IS REALLY THE ONE. TO SEE
Good informative presentation - I would just like to know if anyone can offer me advice as when I am tuning my newish LP bongoes, especially on the macho, one pair of opposite lugs need tightening so much more than the other pair on which the nuts are barely past the end. I have tried turning the head and rim around but am still trying to offset the position of the lugs so that one is next to the block joining the two drums to keep it comfortable to play while sitting, Any help would be really appreciated,
How could I know what size of skin I need
aprende ingles!!! good video ive learn alot.
Los mejores parches para grabar son de cuero de mula. Ahora existen los parches sintéticos de remo.
Ya que el cuero sufre con el clima, los parches remo no.
No se desafínan jamás. Yo recomiendo remo tucked fiberskyn.
I bought a preform rawhide congas head and can't return it since it's been year since I bought it.. found out it's too big ..can I soak it in water for 8 hrs and reform it again?
Da head of tha fwokin' bwongo, ya schmutz!
Thanks for this video. I want to buy Lp skin, what is the name of your store? do u sell online
I have a 1930's vintage Ludwig bass drum. The outside diameter of the drum shell is 27 1/2 ". I need to replace the two heads with 27 1/2 " bass drum heads. Do yo have access to these? Thanks
gracias
Hola. Para congas, de que animal son los cueros y que espesor tienen?
For me pre mounted heads for bongos & congas is me!!!!
si lo intente pero me sale la opción de ingles(transcripto) no se si hago algo mal. muchas gracias por tomarte el tiempo en responde!
can you repair cracked head can't afford 40 to 50
Could I send my drum to you for repair? This is a Indian handheld 2 sided 4" ends with one side skin damaged Ram.
+Devi Singh no sorry we don't do repairs.
robert are you from our planet this guy didnt even know what his talking ab, and notice that he never hit the kongo to check the sound....hellooo
Xq no traducen al español?...
a couple of doggy moments, but it works!
🥁🥁🔥🥰♥️👌♥️🤟🤟🤟
I broke my cuica stick : (
Lololo! I know. Amigo !! That is hurt to do that job , but at that time we havnt enought money to buy a LP skin! U know , but watch now , right now some company make the special skins to play llatin percussion ! Those materials are plastic or sintétic skins ? ! Is X-RAY. !! Lolo! Understand .
que lastima que esta en ingles! :(
Es verdad.Por favor,preguntale al senor Gordoba en Habana (Y hay muchos muchos otros mas que conocen bien la cosa) de hacer una video en Cubano,( y otra en castillano para la gente que no tiene posibilidad de reducir la velocidad del video para entender!!!)'.Hay que hacer esfuersos'.Desde nino,vosotros han apprendido el languaje de los tambores y,nosotros europeos hemos aprendido el Ingles.Vosotros seis los musicos,nosotros volvemos los que cambian las pieles.Ha mucho cambiada la cosa desde el tiempo de la colonia,desde la epoca del criolo frances de las tumbas francesas,.......Y,sabes que ?,mis amigos africanos no entienden tu deso.Hacen todo,todo antes de ....comunicar...Hablaban tantos idiomas diferentes que piensaron a comunicar empleando los tambores.Ahora,los africanos cambian las pieles,tocan tambores con los ojos cerados y seguimos aprendiendo el idioma del vecino para comunicar y disfrutarnos juntos; Que circolo! Mucho ACHE desde vieja Europa.
i fix much better than him ,,,
Really? That’s cool! 😁
Maybe you're right (posible que tiene razon..)but what exactly do you mean by fixing much better?You do it faster,you better choose your skins,you always know the precise sound you will get before mounting a skin on a shell?you have much more experience because you spend more time to change skins than to play hand drums?Maybe you are more gifted than he's,why not after all? The fact is that,as I said previously,this Young guy knows how to do it ,He is very clear when stating how to do it,he gives us lots of détails I wouldn't probably have though of.He doesn't tell us it's difficult (and,I do agree!) .He doen't polute camera shooting.So Mr good looking Georges Clooney,from a Young LP specialist,what did you expect???That's sufficent for me,(an old 64 years old guy who had the great pleasure at the age of 12 to observe and help my uncle when he made congas for his friendsManos Mongo,Armando,Ray,Changuito..,who,lately, met Gordoba in Havana to observe how he made my own bongoes .Manos fuertes y cabeza que no permite llevar sombrero (demaciado grande) Mucho Ache a ti 'Yo soy el unico,yo soy el terrooooor,yo soy el mejooor'.Por favor'.Sigue montando pieles antes quel sonido de la hembra no deje expresarse al macho PS;Puede ser que la gente del Sr Martin COHEN estan buscando a aguien que tiene conocimiento.Quien sabe?
Amigo ! Sorry about the comment but do u can mount a XRay n the macho bongos yes?? That happen years ago when the skin from X factor made in USA WAS So xpensive!! I was using the X-ray plastic paper in congas ans bingos , blive me the was sound great !! So te problem was. How can u put X-ray n u bongos ,? That is a work my friend , I m not offending you , ok thansk ,. I stil with my X-ray n my bongos
Hello man.Sorry to have been a bit rude with you.My apologises for my ridiculous comment about the way you dress on your picture as ,function of where I personnaly have to live,I realise that I have myself been dressing like a businessman or a native Tahitian.( When in Havana,I didn't dress in Tropicana like I did in La Tropical or Los Pinos or Pogoloti) But,back to Bongoes...I'm happy to be informed that you already mounted Xrays fims on the Macho.I remember to have played Cuban'so mounted' bongoes.They sounded so fantastic (when plated by Cubans,of course) ...so,when back to France I had (I really couldn't help me..)tried to mount one Xray sheet on my own macho. ( Using a double speed electrical hair-heater).,then,in order to get an even sharper,I did it with a very nice looking transparent blue plastic
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