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UGH! This article is completely confusing. It goes from talking about their origin in Cuba, and then abruptly shifts to it talking about Africa and the Middle East...
makes no sense!
ß17:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Wasn't this a fad during the late 1950s and early 1960s? I seem to recall it was but I can't find any references on the Internet about it. -
Rolypolyman22:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)reply
Genres of music where the bongos are found
I've removed this section completely. No other instrument page seems to have it, and it was becoming rather unencyclopedic.
Jellocube2710:15, 6 June 2007 (UTC) Duh you got owned O.W.N.E.D. ownedreply
this article need to tell us some thing about those meatle poles attached to the outer rim of the head it tells you NOTHING about it. i hve no idea what they are or what they do. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
123.2.249.167 (
talk)
06:26, 15 August 2010 (UTC)reply
Quite right, as can a
snare drum, a
bass drum, or
timbales. This is the main reason the traditional terms tuned percussion and untuned percussion are avoided these days... it gets really confusing when so many so-called untuned percussion instruments have tuning keys and tuning lugs so they can be tuned by the player!
The main page of this article needs an extra paragraph on the bridge connecting the left drum to the right drum. Doesn't the nature of the bridge have an effect on the sound? Are some bridges made of metal while other bridges are made of wood?
The picture caption reads Sexteto Habanero in 1925. First from the left is Agustín Gutiérrez, the bongosero. His tuning lamp is on the floor (circled). There is no explanation of what a "tuning lamp" is and I can't find one anywhere else. Can anyone shine a light on this?
Tigerboy1966 07:50, 28 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Hi, before the advent of tunable bongos and congas in the 1940s,
oil or
kerosene lamps were used to heat up the drum heads so the membranes could expand to achieve the desired sound.
Here is an explanation by
Ned Sublette, and
here is
Armando Peraza explaining it as well. Nowadays this is done mechanically with a wrench.
Neodop (
talk)
19:22, 28 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Persistent vandalism
Since 9 September,
User:Ficzere21 has been consitently deleting chunks of the article, removing sources, altering sourced statements so they disagree with sources, adding non-encyclopedic opinions, breaking the flow of the lead, adding numerous unsourced statements and even copy-pasting a paragraph straight from Britannica. I am opening a discussion here so he can specify what exactly is going on and whether he intends to persist in his
disruption. Pinging @
Binksternet:, in case he has something to add.
Neodop (
talk)
23:00, 27 September 2021 (UTC)reply