Raul Conga Drum, used by Mongo Santamaría
date: label: Date made
content: 1980s
name: label: user
content: Santamaria, Ramon "Mongo"
label: maker
content: Raul Instrumentos de Percussao
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This drum was made by Raul Instrumentos de Percussão in Brazil, in the 1980s. It is a Conga Drum, with a wood shell, metal rings and 5 tension rods. Previously used by Afro-Latin jazz percussionist Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría. There is a printed label on the side of the drum:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>RAUL<br>[maker's logo]<br>RAUL INSTRUMENTOS<br>DE PERCUSSÃO<br>"BRIN-PLAS"<br>FERRAMENTARIA LTDA.<br>Av. Yervant Kissajinkian, 2749<br>Vila Missionária-SP.<br>Ind. Brasileira<br>C.G.C.61.682.0271000104</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Raul Instrumentos de Percussão was founded by two friends, toolmaker Paulo Bauer and percussionist and craftsman Raul Serpeloni. This company began its production in the Brin-Plas factory, in 1984. It was the first factory in Brazil to develop instruments and hardware for drums with the type of quality and design unseen before in the country. In January 1995, Raul left the company and moved out of Sao Paolo, where the company continued building fine instruments with the founder Paulo Bauer and his children, Ricardo and Adriana Bauer.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (1917–2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s. Santamaria made several recordings as a leader of his own group, as well as a sideman with Fania All-Stars, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Charles.</p>
place: label: place made
content: Brazil
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Percussion
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nancy Santamaria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0030.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0030.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: animal skin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 74.295 cm x 31.75 cm