Talk:Martin Cohen (entrepreneur)

Did Cohen create the first ever bongo stand?
In the Percussive Arts Society website's hall-of-fame entry for Cohen, it says this:

"As word spread about the quality of Cohen’s bongos, he was approached by Specs Powell, a CBS staff drummer. Powell wanted a pair of bongos, but he wanted them mounted on a stand. “I said, ‘You can’t play bongos on a stand,’ because nobody in the Latin scene played them on a stand,” Cohen says. “But he was insistent, so I devised a bongo mounting bracket that didn’t require drilling a hole through the bongo.”"

First, I assume this is true: obviously it's Cohen talking about himself, but it's part of an interview with the PAS so it should be pretty reliable. But was this the first time anyone had designed or made a bongo stand or a bongo holding bracket as we know them? Likely it was, but it's also possible that someone else had done something similar earlier and the news just hadn't reached many Latin percussionists the US yet. Does anyone know of any evidence relevant to this? RW Dutton (talk) 07:15, 16 March 2023 (UTC)