Bass Slit Drum Log Drum in Padouk, A minor Pentatonic

The Big One - for children and adults - Padouk.

Feel the gentle deep rhythm whole-body (lying down) or interactive (two players sitting at the ends) or drumming naturally. Feel the sound here is palpable and very invigorating. 8 full-sounding tones made from the best air-dried padouk.

Features:

• Tuned in A minor pentatonic
• Tone sequence: A - C - D - F - G - A - C - D
• Wood: lid - padouk, body - pine
• Dimensions: 120 x 40 x 45 cm
• accessories: 2 mallets, hygrometer
• 120 cm long
• NEW - disinfectable
• Biologically treated with hard wax oil
• Made in Germany

  Application

  Application

  In kindergartens, clinics and institutions for people with handicaps, these drums are very popular because of their "feel the sound" abilities used for mindfulness exercises and to experience their own body as pleasantly perfused. Particularly with hyperkativen children wonderful successes are to be registered. The attention goes from "being out of oneself" back to the inside, the body is perceived again, the system calms down and the child can be integrated again.

  Sounds

  The 8 tones tuned in A minorpentatonic are arranged in a sequence that the left hand starts at the bottom left with the lowest tone, then the next tone of the scale on the next tone row is played with the right hand, in this way it continues left - right - left and down again to the highest tone. Arranged in this way, rhythmic playing can follow a clear sequence but it is also possible to experiment intuitively with the timbres. Playing patterns that please are repeated, from time to time a sound breaks out and explores new sound fantasies. Beginning as a drum with rhythmic patterns that are staggered in time, melodies slowly build up. The bass slit drum can be played as well with mallets as with fingers and hands.

  How to play

  With the mallets the notes can easily be struck rhythmically and clearly one after the other. The player can also let the mallets drip on the notes, i.e. let the rubber ball of the malletdop on the tongue and hold the shaft in such a way, as if one wanted to remain on the tongue, thereby the soft rubber ball issprung back. If you now let the feathering glide not only on one, but over several tongues, fascinating sound patterns are created, which can be combined with the simple striking of the tongues.

• Finest feeltone craftsmanship from high quality materials, lovingly made from the plank to the tuning in the northeast of Germany on the beautiful Baltic Sea and shipped around the world. By the way, slotted drums exist worldwide in different forms and names (Teponatzli, Log Drum, Tongue Drum, Kring, Tongue Drum).
  

  
  

  NEW - Disinfection

  Surface - antibacterial and disinfectable

  Processing

  The bass slotted drum has a sturdy interior, is constructed of air-dried padouk and is cleanly tuned. It is feeltone's largest, unique in the market and popular with young and old. We use Padouk because it has especially good sound characteristics as tonewood . The selected Padouk from Nigeria comes exclusively from controlled and certified logging, which is much more expensive than Padouk from unclear origin. We as a company are not certified (very bureaucratic and costly, our consumption is too low), however, we can always provide the certificate of our wood supplier as proof of our certified padouk. It is already ethically a "must" for us to use only such woods. We store the wood in the fresh air for 2-4 years to achieve the best drying results. Industrially dried padouk is very prone to cracking. We try to process these valuable woods, which the trees provide us with, as completely as possible. So first the planks for the bass, then the tenor, followed by the soprano and finally the baba and tinka tongs are cut.