Part of it is whether or not the person with the bongos has a sense of appropriateness. Calling on my experience in the Pamir House milieu again, if Mike Atwood drew upon his large repertoire of Kingston Trio songs and sang Zombie Jamboree, for example, the bongos would go well with that. If Jim Wilhelm sings a lullabye or I do The Three Ravens, it would not be. Unfortunately, most bongo players that I've run into don't have that sense of appropriateness.

Don Firth