Start Your Musical Tour With Conga Drums!
Conga drums gifted by the Africana and Cuba, widely used by the musicians in many countries of the world. It is also popular under the name like Afro-Cuban drum or Afro-Cuban drums. Today, the conga drum becomes an important part of music for all Latin America. The people who played this attractive music called as a congueros.
Conga drums are narrowed in their shape with tall in height and also having the variety in widths. The widths of drums start from the nine inches and reaches to around the 14 inches across their drum head. The varying size grown up as an important factor for the sound and pitch effect of the conga drums. In comparison of the smaller Cuban drums the larger produce effects of deeper rhythms for slower play. In case of the smaller size it would be used for melodies production. Several smaller and big drums are making a good combination and also an effective part of the Congo music, just tuned as for one particular harmony or chord.
Conga drums are single headed and used in combination of three in a varying pitch drum. The combination starts from higher pitch drum known as quinto, and lowest pitch producer drum called as tumbadora, while the conga or the segundo is the medium pitch producer and also it is middle one drum. In country like Cuba, the conga word is become synonyms for the drum for carnival celebration.