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…and I am curious what was that info you were looking for?? Was it about djembes, Mali Music, Afro Cuban, Brasil, Haiti or?
My son has played the djembe occaisionally on a friend’s djembe. Now he wants to play regularly as rhythm backup in a church worship band. As I was looking at types of hand drums, I saw that there are various types including Conga, and others. When I talked to his band teacher about the djembe, they said that they didn’t play much african music, and I see a lot of references to latin music with congas. Are they that specific. Our friend who plays the djembe as rhythm backup to piano and guitar seems to do just fine with a djembe. I saw that pearl makes some travel congas, and didn’t know if I should encourage him to take a shot at them. He is very musically gifted, and so I thought that the Congas might give him more range, and challenge.
Generally, congas are going to give you a better range and more dexterity then a djembe. I play both instruments and for bands generally I like to play congas and people (the other musicians) prefer the sound of congas to djembe, which is high pitched. Having said that, I travel with a djembe as it is much lighter and bringing two congas around can be difficult with out a car, whereas a djembe can go on my back even on a bicycle. I also have a set of LP compact congas synthetic which are small, but there is absolutely no bass, just tone and slap and I have not been able to get used to them 100% as I love the more natural sound of the congas.