LP Matador Puerto Rican Bongos are modeled after traditional style instruments (and thus have traditional rims) and a traditional steel bottom. Shells of the 7-1/2 and 8-5/8 pair are Siam oak and they wear proudly the Puerto Rican flag. Heads are hand selected natural rawhide. Proudly fly the multi-banded flag of Puerto Rico an island that is indisputably the source of much of the world s finest indigenous Latin and Latin jazz music.