Dancing girl graphics might not suit everyone ... Meinl chose to send us a set of standard diameter drums which comprises an 11" quinto, 11 3/4" conga and 12 1/2" tumba which all stand proud at a cool ...

It was a pleasure to play these drums and they would suit many musical settings with more than a tip of the hat to their construction and great materials. The conga was responsive and powerful and the ...

Congas have become ubiquitous in popular music since the late 1960s, after Santana famously made 500,000 people sway their hips at Woodstock. Timbales, the two snare-drum-looking instruments ...

Terry "Doc" Handy discovered the congas when he was 12. Actually, it was more like he connected with them - because when he began playing the Cuban drums, he began activating the musical links ...

This marked the arrival of Rekow on the international scene, its opening track, Carnaval, featuring a fiery and energetic conga drum executing an Afro-Brazilian samba de roda pattern. It was the ...