The Bongo voice seems to have broad popular appeal. The Bongo look seems to be:
A. An acquired taste.
B. Like a hammer toe on Miss Universe.
C. Immediately appealing to a small group of
folks with no aesthetic sensability at all.
D. All of the above.
Pick an option from the above, and join the elite, the Bongoistas, aka We-Who-Got-Over-It. You like the sound, you play it.
I play a Bongo cuz I wanted to play Tuba but I thought the Tuba was 'aesthetically challenged' and wrote to the Tuba builders asking them to shape it more elegantly, like a Grand Piano. Well the Tuba Builders told me to f*ckoff, which I interpretted as "I'll show THEM. I'll go buy an ugly bass that sounds even better than an ugly tuba, and they can keep that rat's nest of sewer pipes anyway". And we all lived happily ever after. YMMV.
