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Hand Percussion · Models

Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.

7 models

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    Meinl Woodcraft Congas

    Hand percussion

    Woodcraft congas use American white oak staves and Meinl's tuning hardware, and sit at the professional end of a catalogue that runs a very long way down in price.

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    LP Classic Conga

    Hand percussion

    The Classic is the conga most people picture: Siam oak staves, LP's Comfort Curve rim, and hardware that survives being tuned hard and often. It is the drum against which other production congas are described.

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    Tycoon Master Handcrafted Congas

    Hand percussion

    Master Handcrafted congas are Tycoon's professional drums, with thicker Siam oak staves and hand-selected heads, at prices well below the American brands.

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    Toca Elite Pro Congas

    Hand percussion

    Elite Pro is the top of Toca's range: stave-built wooden shells, heavy hardware, and hand-selected hide heads.

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    Cooperman Rope Tension Field Drum

    Hand percussion

    Cooperman builds rope-tension field drums to period specification for reenactment, early music, and fife and drum corps — the drum as it was before metal tension rods.

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    Gope Atabaque

    Hand percussion · Brazil

    The atabaque is a tall, rope- or key-tuned hand drum used in Afro-Brazilian religious music and in capoeira rodas, built by Gope in the three traditional sizes.

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    LP Classic Bongos

    Hand percussion

    LP's Classic bongos pair Siam oak shells with rawhide heads and traditional bell-shaped hardware; they are the drums almost every recorded bongo part since the 1970s was played on.