How To Make a Conga Drum | I Visit the Moperc Shop

What an incredible experience to see first hand how a Conga Drum is made... at least in the Moperc way! Special Thanks Francis and the whole Moperc Team for hosting me and giving me this beautiful experience.
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Thanks to:
Alex Carignan (Volcano Medias) - Camera and Editing
Steven Doman- Sound Recording
Francis Mercier - Sound Editing and Mixing
The Moperc Team
#Moperc #Congas #APercussionLife

[@Jadaj14]

It's a dream of mine to own a pair of these one day. Been following them for quite some time. I absolutely adore the process and the love they put into their craft.

[@anthonycapanas2932]

Thank you Eric for posting this video on Moperc. Off the bat, I'm convinced that once you've invested in their line of drums, that it is a life time of holding on to their product because of the craftsmanship that is meticulously applied with pride and care to each drum. Those stainless steel fittings and hardware has blown me away while other conga drums with chrome plated ones due rust in time. Again Eric thank you.

[@JohnSmith-uh5jn]

That's crazy!! I never realized the staves were cut like that. Thanks

[@MrNickyPolo]

Loved the video! You’re a great ambassador for MOPERC!

[@bigchungus2667]

I'm about to do the biggest purchase of my life, yet!

[@BADEAU011]

Bravo à Francis et au staff de Moperc, ces gens sont sérieux et talentueux.

[@samuelmontgomery3882]

Francis made me a q-c-t out of mahogany all from the same tree. (Poncho Sanchez series) And???Sonic Perfection!!! And I think kind of a rare thing. But you would have to ask Francis about that. But I do know these drums make me sound almost as good as you. Ha! Ha! THATS HOW GOOD MOPERC DRUMS ARE!!!

[@bschroedter]

I bought a Q-C-T set about 10 years ago from Michel. I have a good many other drums but nothing comes close. Playing any of my drums is my escape and meditation but perhaps the most surprising thing is the sheer joy I get playing my Mopercs. Simply-they are the BEST.

[@MattioliD]

Great video. I love my Moperc bongos.

[@jamesdarylthomas3684]

❤ Outstanding video maybe in the next couple of years I'll get three or four Thanks

[@rubenv.4228]

Excellent video E. I really enjoyed this one. 👍

[@joelrivera2957]

Wow man! Best video everrr💯best drums too❤ thanks!

[@1ralphiem]

Happy Thanksgiving my Brother!!! That is a great video!!!!

[@JOHNNYonTHExpot]

Excellent video Eric . Thank you MOPERC TEAM for crafting my amazing looking and sounding drums during the pandemic time ! I know it wasn’t easy but you guys managed to get the work done during this tuff time. And from my experience owning this state of the art sounding drums I truly can say THEY ARE WORTH EVERY SINGLE PENNY ! the quality and sound it’s a total bargain for the money.

[@NotSoSuave]

Great video. Now I have much more respect for this industry.

[@alexhealthfitness9262]

Definitely I'm buying a pair of this congas 😮

[@mudderdrummer]

This was great Eric! thanks for bringing us in with you!

[@fabianernestopacheco]

Siempre pensé que las tablillas eran dobladas con calor, nunca me imaginé que fueran cortadas de una vez con la curva. Increíble!!!

[@daveperlowski]

Great tour, Eric! You brought all the stuff I've been writing about to life! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

[@starjaguar]

Mucho amor para Eric y su canal. Y pura candela Moperc!

[@leonidmakogon3673]

YOU ARE HUGE WELL DONE!!!!!! IT'S AMAZING ! HUGE THANK YOU!

[@Freddy1431]

Thank you for sharing and showing how to make the Conga, I can enjoy playing the conga now better. From Alabama

[@harveydrumz]

Respect guys !!

[@oleran4569]

That shop is impressively clean! Nice equipment and tooling! I wonder what it looks like on a normal production day and am surprised they stored kiln dried lumber outside.

[@franafrokan]

Our wood is stored inside. When we receive the bundle, it's cut outside the same day and leave it in the shop for 2 weeks before starting the process.

[@oleran4569]

@@franafrokan Oh. That makes more sense. You guys must work really hard to keep that shop clean. I spent some time as a student, making ashikos. Everything was hand sanded and scrapped after glue up. We all wanted a lathe, but the "boss" said he didn't believe in shaping on a lathe. (It was also cheaper for him since student labor was free :).

[@migueltrujillo5932]

I heard the raw sound of Moperc Tambor on a video of some brothers from Matanzas playing Columbia awesome piece of drumming.

[@justovi1373]

Awesome sound track in the background!

[@Michael_Olivarez]

Finally! I've been waiting for this one to drop. Awesome tour, awesome company, awesome people, AWESOME DRUMS! Wish it was an hour longer haha. Spectacular to see how our drums are made. Worth every penny. Perfect Thanksgiving video 😉 Thank you, guys 🙏🏼

[@eufemioyantin24]

Love,love,this content bro…may you always be blessed!❤

[@eddiedelgado978]

Thank you for showing this video. Absolutely awesome drums and very worth it! I love my drums!! 🪘

[@armacanqui]

I’ve been buying MOPERC drums since 2016 and from my experience they’re the best manufactured and sounding drums out there. I’ve had drums made by Michel (the original founder) and Francis, so it’s incredible to see just how the standard has not only been maintained, but raised. Big props to Francis for keeping the tradition alive! 👏🏼

[@shubox69]

Beautiful amazing Beyond words wow my next drum

[@VolcanoMedias]

Super fun watching this in 4K! Good job team, thanks Francis and Eric for the trust!!

[@elredoble]

Nice papa, I took a tour of Pierna Percussion in Cali Colombia. This brought back memories. Awesome video

[@TuboInfo]

💥🎶🪘🪘Wow incredible, calidad y muy interesante ver cómo un artesano puede mantener nuestra SaLsa viva y en ritmo, Gracias🎶💥🌴🪇✌🏽

[@omarledezmajr]

Amazing piece of work Francis and Moperc 🔥🔥 thank you Eric!

[@vorapercussion]

❤❤❤ hope someday can play those beautiful congas. Hello from Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@reinaldonegron9448]

Excellent.

[@albhandyman7366]

White Ash is a wonder wood. I started playing congas long before I began to work with ash for axe and tool handles. I like to dry a few pieces of ash on my wood stove because the moist wood just under the bark makes my workshop smell like butter. This place must smell like a bakery.

[@joseluismahecha4276]

Excelente sonido, me encantan, ya quisiera ser artista exclusivo de moperc, Bogotá-Colombia Excellent sound, I love them, I would like to be an exclusive artist for moperc, Bogotá-Colombia

[@MaTTheWish]

Excellent company. Thanks for sharing.

[@SCR440]

Saludos Everybody, yes, yes, yes ! A really cool video Eric, Thanks! I have my Moperc 5pc. Custom Cubano satin green Ash Set. And it’s absolutely the best Set I have played in my life. A sonic bliss. And now there are coming three more Moperc Congas for the classes with my students. I love this real high quality drums. All the best, keep on playing & stay tuned, Christoph Kissel, Germany.

[@rodrigodiazdevivar1734]

Gracias Eric por compartir tu video con nosotros. I always was curious about the process to make these conga drums. I have the Custom Cubano drums and I am very happy to have them at home. Francis you are the best!👍

[@tinopitt8315]

Hermosas Congas!👏

[@johnperez2898]

They know how to make great quality drums I been an lp guy but moperc it's making it hard for me to stick to lp. I definitely switching to MOPERC

[@b0fjk80]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@amarsodnompil7136]

I really like this video it’s very interesting how moperc congas are maid I just want you to know that I love congas bongos and any hand drum.❤

[@DrummerDanny76]

This was very cool ! Besides congas, do they make bongos too ?

[@APercussionLife]

They sure do!!!

[@chrisbullock6477]

Who would of thought some French Canadians would be up there making Congas y Tumbadores.

[@franafrokan]

Imagine when we started more than 30 years ago, in a small town with about 100 inhabitants, no internet, in the middle of nowhere with a lots of snow and temperatures hitting 30 below zero in the winter !

[@timothyluna9725]

I would like to listen to the different kinds of woods used

[@chuzalpizar54]

En la busca de unas buenas naves creo que con este video tomo ventaja esta marca, estetica impecable y sonido nítido, tambor hermoso

[@ballantynedewolf]

Couple of surprising things in this video. 4% is incredibly dry! Australian timber merchants kiln down to 7 then back up to between 10 and 13% with steam. Why so dry I wonder, given it's so much lower than ambient? Also cutting curved staves - that's unusual. Conventionally staves are cut straight and bent into shape. Assembly I guess is easier with pre-curved staves, but isnt there going to be a shaggy surface from tapering against the grain?

[@franafrokan]

Hello! Our slabs are flat cut, our staves are quarter sawn. We don't work against the grain and the result is a better stability than steam bent. But you are right that wood grain changes along the staves, but anyway, we have better results on woodturning shells made with this technique rather than steam bent. 6-8% is the accepted moisture content of kiln dried lumber here in North America. The real stabilization of the cells happens as the lumber is brought down below 8%. We have extreme humidity changes here, if not controlled, it can vary from 30% to 80% in our shop and into most people houses. Opening windows on humid summertime days, heating full blast on winter time. Outside temperature also vary from -40 to +40 Celsius. We do our best to stay around 50% of humidity in the shop. Thanks for watching !

[@chrisbullock6477]

No Quality Checks with a little play on a couple to the congas!!??

[@jonasjpm1989]

Legal

[@orpsomar]

4:15 Can anyone explain how this mold is made to cut the piece?

[@richardmilano4015]

Please tell me how much bongo drum cost with my name printed in???

[@leobell3502]

You didn't show how the Bearing Edges are cut, the most important part of the drum. Well, they're cut on a Router Table and then hand sanded as close to human perfection as possible.

[@hectorg.9031]

Ponle subtitulos bro. Nos interesa mucho

[@franafrokan]

Puedes activar la traduccion en KZbin. Haz click en CC y despues en parametros, elige español y ya puedes ver el video con subtitulo en español

[@bargemaster_band_fl]

Is nobody going to mention that these are basically reproductions of vintage Valje congas out of San Francisco?

[@franafrokan]

Sorry, but they are not. Our work is a bit closer to SOS and some Cuban drums from the 50's. Valje's had a different shape and the hardware design completely different

[@pasqualemontesano3030]

19:15 19:15

[@pasqualemontesano3030]

Scusa ho sbagliato sorry

[@pasqualemontesano3030]

Video Meraviglioso. Si potranno vedere in Italia un Giorno?????

[@franafrokan]

@@pasqualemontesano3030 You can activate subtitles in Italian on KZbin

[@chrisbullock6477]

LOL...36!? Don't worry that's very young.

[@agueybanaelbravo4228]

Saludos, A'zum Great Work, 1993 That's When FIDEL CASTRO Pass on Not in 2016 He's Daughter Alina Fernandez Move To Florida and Wroth A Book. The Word on The Street Is That JUSTIN TRUDEAU Is FIDEL CASTRO Son.

[@stacybarrs9765]

They dont show much about how they curve the wood.

[@daveperlowski]

Stacy, each individual stave is cut in its intended shape depending on the model (Cubano or Rumbero). Go to 2:31

[@stacybarrs9765]

@@daveperlowski but they don't show how the wood is curved. Wood is not naturally curved like that.

[@2paco]

They cut it in that shape. What else did you want to know?

[@franafrokan]

@@stacybarrs9765 Please watch the video again an listen carefully! It's all explained... We don't bend wood, we cut it from big slabs to its shape. Go to 2:30

[@RayRay-qr1ej]

In a recent video you made you complain how expensive Lps where and recommend not to buy...but yet you endorse Morpec which are by the way more expensive...mmmm...

[@joeldrummer23]

😂

[@franafrokan]

@@tunakokarcali A lot of people can afford them, thousands of drums sold in the last 5 years, and much more on the last 30 years. We have conga models starting at $900

[@danielkrawiec9859]

Perhaps Eric was suggesting that comparatively speaking, Moperc is the better choice for the long run. The end of the video explains many reasons why this is true.

[@fredericinduni]

The most expensive Lp costs almost the price of the cheapest Moperc, and yet that Moperc is still way better

[@APercussionLife]

What Daniel stated is exactly what I meant… not saying don’t buy an LP… go ahead… but if you’re going to spend that amount for a drum… might as well invest in a Moperc which is made with actual solid stave wood and stainless steel hardware… speaking from someone that has owned LPs most expensive congas… 5 of them actually…

[@raminagrobiz9233]

LP are better

[@franafrokan]

🤣🤣🤣 And they cost $100 to make in Thailand

[@solonanderson7019]

No offense to this company's craftsmanship and skill or this guy's video making ability but it's hilarious watching people explain extremely basic manufacturing techniques that are standards for almost all industries and not particularly special to these people the fact that these people are doing things by hand in an artisan styles with demands of premium not the manufacturing techniques or the materials.

[@armacanqui]

Except this type of video and tour isn’t for people “in the know.” This is to educate the new consumer about the hand-crafted process and its benefits over mass production. Just because it isn’t for you it doesn’t mean it’s invaluable.