LP's Matador Custom line slots between the beginner-targeted Aspire series and its various pro ranges. These congas are Thai-made Siam oak drums of stave construction, strengthened with internal ...

I forget how he did it but there was a lot of mechanical work in there so it also made the drum heavier. It was a cool idea for a conga drum but I was scared when I was tightening that thing.

Previous to 1983, the family-owned company supplied percussion instruments to many outside companies, all made in its own dedicated factory in Bangkok, Thailand. This month we have a pair of djembes ...

Mantio Percussion even provides homemade stainless steel hardware and steer skin drumheads. The bulk of Manito congas are made from tulip poplar trees, mainly due to their availability from local ...

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 ...

But Cali gravitated to the drums — he's a timbale player — and made congas, bongos and other percussion instruments. These days, he specializes in high-quality cowbells of all sorts.