07-11-2008, 10:15 PM
princealbertofb Wrote:I don't think I invented that word, Frank, as far as I know a tumba is the type of drum that they use in SAMBA so it followed Marshlander's contribution quite well.... He could actually confirm this, hopefully.A tumba is usually the largest and deepest of the conga family consisting of quinto, conga and tumba. That makes it Cuban and not really anything to do with samba, although I daresay some people will use it when playing samba music onstage. For street samba a tumba would be far too heavy, so one would use a much lighter hand-drum such as a timba ... oh, was that what you were thinking?