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A pair of wooden bongos de monte with tacked skin heads.

Bongo de Monte

Flame-tuned changüí bongos from eastern Cuba, played by Robert Fernández, with 10 random samples per articulation and 2 mic positions.

  • Kontakt
  • Decent Sampler

$5+Pay what you want

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The bongo de monte is a genuinely Cuban instrument born of the Bantu influence on eastern Cuba between the 16th and 19th centuries. It grew out of the bokú, and early players joined two buckets to make it. It has no tuning keys; players tune it with a flame.

It is the bongo of changüí, the nengón, the kiribá and the regina montunera, the roots of the eastern son montuno.

I recorded these samples with my good friend Robert Fernández in Phoenix in 2021. The Kontakt version plays true random notes; the Decent Sampler version uses round robins. I recommend a little reverb, but not too much.

Royalty free in any production, including client projects. A credit is appreciated but not required. You may not sell or redistribute the samples, or claim them as your own.

Details

Samples
10 random notes per articulation
Microphones
Close (about 6 inches) and room, adjustable
Mapping
C3 low drum muted, D3 low drum slap, E3 low drum open, F3 high drum fingertip muted with the other hand, G3 high drum finger on skin, A3 high drum slap, B3 high drum finger on edge, A2 glisses
Kontakt
Needs the full version of Kontakt. It likely won’t work in the free Kontakt Player, so I recommend the Decent Sampler version; it uses the same samples.

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