For Christmas, I decided to get two of these mini 6 inch, steel-tongue drums in deep green; one for each for my grown daughters in their 20’s. Both are creatives, and just love making and listening to music! You can choose to play the drum with the two mallets included (along with their rest stand), or with your fingers. There are 8 notes which can be tuned by either slightly lifting or pressing down on each individual “tongue”. Even better, it comes with an excellent instruction guide/music book with songs to play. The final items which are thoughtfully included are a strip of stickers with duplicate numbers for each note, and a great durable black bag to store it all. The only “odd” thing I noticed was there is no number “8” note on the drum. Instead, there are two numeral “1’s” but one has a “•”dot above the number “1”. After pondering it, I realized one of those notes is probably just an octave higher than the regular “1” note. It’s really no problem once you figure that out.😊 This cute drum has three round rubber “legs” making it very stable. The drum is sturdy and well made with a good weight to it, but it’s hollow inside as it should be. It’s well powder coated with a waterproof and scratch resistant paint that protects it from heavy usage and rusting. In the long run, this will help keep the tones sounding beautiful for a long time. Therefore, you can generate your own music, or use it outdoors as a “rain drum” for nature to make her own song. Now how freaking cool is that! There have been various studies showing that vibrations of certain sounds can actually help heal our minds and bodies. In fact, using “sound baths” was a popular treatment in VA hospitals during the 1940’s. The ethereal tones which this drum emanates can easily be incorporated into a meditation session. Humming or chanting along with the notes can help you relax too. Overall, this little steel drum is an object which has the magical ability of holding your interest, reducing your stress, and sparking your creativity for hours! I would highly recommend it as an unusual and thoughtful gift for anyone, at an extremely affordable price! They are a big hit with my kids, and I’ll probably get one for myself as well.

5 STARS!!! I wish I would have gotten one sooner. It sounds so lovely. The carrying case will make it easy to pack on the motorcycle. Love it

Good quality and even comes with a book to play songs

I bought this as a fun little instrument to play with when bored. This sounds good for the price I paid and I like the way it looks. You could leave this out and does not look like an eye sore. I find it easy to use and hit the yeys you want assuming you build the muscle memory to play without having to look at the keys each time. I would buy again.

This is so fun! I moved where it rains almost every day. When I saw this, it was the perfect rain addition to my sitting patio garden. Random musical notes pleasant to the ear, always different.

Beautiful tones, great powder coated outside. Beautiful addition to our summer porch garden

This works great and just makes a very Relaxing sound when raining, we just love it.

Does not make any noise out in the rain. It poured and hailed, I moved it closer to the window , and we still couldn’t hear it with windows wide opened.