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Bongos playing a cumbia beat. Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. [1] The pair consists of the larger hembra (lit. ' female ') and the smaller macho (lit. ' male '), which are joined by a wooden bridge. They are played with both hands and ...
Donkey Konga [a] is a series of rhythm video games developed by Namco and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.A spin-off of the Donkey Kong series, they are played with a special controller called the DK Bongos that resemble two small bongo drums, but can optionally be played with the standard GameCube controllers.
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Because the fur is left on the hide, the bombo's sound is deep and dark. The bombo is played while hanging to the side of the drummer, who drapes one arm over the drum, to play it from above, while also striking it from the front. The player's hands hold a soft-headed mallet and a stick, which strike drumhead and wooden rim in alternation.
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A racing game, DK Bongo Blast, was also set to use the peripheral, but the GameCube version was canceled, and the game eventually released on the Wii without Bongo support as Donkey Kong Barrel Blast. Players hit the controller like a pair of bongo drums. The controller has an analog sound-sensor module between the two drums to detect clapping.
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A composer and drummer, Costanzo is best known for having been a bongo player, and was nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas. Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II.