These beauties produce wonderful crackling highs and rich midrange to bass tones. They have tremendous projection provided by Mango?s superior hardwood qualities.
The drums can be ordered with steer Kip skins or Remo heads as an option. The clarity of sound is accentuated by the finished interiors. Our hardware is all hand made Stainless Steel buffed to a mirror finish. The staves are dowelled together for extra strength and the shells are reinforced with stainless backing plates. To cushion the drums against shock there are rubber gaskets on both sides of the center block. The finish is crystal clear polymer. To top it all off, the drums and hardware are both made in America and come with a 5 year Warranty.
Our Hawaiian Mango Wood Bongos can be ordered in Partial Curly Mango, Full Curl Mango or in Spalted Mango Wood.
More About Mango Bongos: Here in Hawaii, Mango is second only in popularity to Hawaiian Koa wood. The reason is it has such a cheerful beauty, much like the Hawaiian people. Although its origin is not Hawaii, it has become well adapted in the last 600 years. So well, that Hawaiian Mango wood is distinct in appearance. Giant curls, insane grain and most of all its rainbow of colors. Mango is also used extensively for beautiful furniture, ukuleles and guitars.
Mango is a technically a hardwood and of course the tree produces the wonderful orange mango fruit. These trees typically grow to a 4' to 6' girth at 50 ft. tall. Therefore, one branch can produce several conga drums. We at Volcano Percussion only purchase trees that have been removed thru natural mortality or development.
Wood Curl: Is also referred to as tiger stripe and ripple. Curl is compression grain perpendicularly crossing the face of a board producing alternate stripes of hard and soft board fiber. This phenomenon creates a chatoyantcy in the board varying in strength depending on the degree of compression leaving the viewer with the illusion of a three-dimensional surface.
Spalted Wood: In the decorative wood market, spalted wood is in high demand. Spalting is caused by certain white-rot decay fungi growing in wood-primarily hardwoods such as maple, birch, and beech. The fungi create "zone lines" in the wood where territories of competing fungi meet.
