Remo Kid's Percussion Rain Forest Djembe | 
 enlarge | Brand: Remo
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $92.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6908
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: KD-0608-01
Model: KD-0608-01
UPC: 757242135662
EAN: 0757242135662
ASIN: B0002F7KTW
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Product Description
The Djembe (jem-bay) originally comes from West Africa, where it has historically been used in both religious and secular (popular) music. The unique shape of the Djembe allows it to produce three distinct tones: a very deep bass tone when played in the middle of the head, a mid tone when played off-center, and a dry, high-pitched sound when played at the edge. In addition, different parts of the hands, palms, and fingers are traditionally used to create the characteristic variety of Djembe sounds.
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 Amazon's picture is wrong July 3, 2007
JK (Wellesley, MA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't have this product but just wanted to comment that the picture Amazon has for this product is incorrect.
 An Excellent Outdoor Drum, a Tolerable Beginner Drum September 22, 2004
J. Bradley Hicks (St Louis, MO USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The first thing you need to know about this drum is that it is nigh invulnerable. You could practically drive a truck over the body. I've used mine for a camp stool on many occasions. The synthetic head isn't completely invulnerable; from having it rattle around loose in the trunk of my car, it picked up a couple of nicks, but nothing that's had any effect on it.
The second thing you need to know about this drum is that it makes a great outdoor drum. The synthetic head and fiberglass body are completely unaffected by humidity, and almost completely unaffected by temperature at any range that I've ever been willing to drum outside in. I've known people who've played them in pouring rain. Not only did it not hurt the drum, it stayed in tune. (But more on that later.)
Furthermore, it's very affordable, and the combination of affordable and durable makes for a reasonably good first drum.
Now, the down sides. The glued synthetic head will never go out of tune. On the other hand, you can't tune it if you want to, not without replacing the whole head. The synthetic body that makes it so cheap and indestructible is also very hard and not all porous, so it has a somewhat sharp sound. If a ceramic djembe or a metal djembe doesn't disappoint you, then this won't either, but it's at best a distant cousin of the rich tones you get out of a good wooden djembe. And the relatively small synthetic head gives a somewhat limited range of notes; a larger, hand tuned natural head will give you a wider variety of pitch to play with.
All of that being said, I love mine to pieces. I recently got rid of a bunch of drums, because I wasn't going to as many drum circles as I used to. This is the one I kept.
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