I bought this because I sometimes end up playing gonguê, but I don’t grt a lot of opportunity to practise it on my own, and so I wanted to be able to experiment a bit at home with the kinds of patterns you play on a gonguê.
For the price, I really can’t complain. The sound is a bit too bright and clean for what I personally want right now, but in the right context it will sound fine.. The only serious drawback for me is that the decay, particularly on the lower bell, is very long. I find that I have to wrap my hand around the lower bell to dampen it enough, while holding my wrist awkwardly in order to try to dampen the upper bell a bit at the same time. If you don’t do this, the lower bell will never stop ringing while you are playing, which will quickly become annoying.
