This big tenor drum is especially fun for kids. Two children can sit on top of the drum and play the drum together. Or, flip the drum over and one can lie on top while another person plays. Adults enjoy this instrument too!

Features

• Tuned in D minor pentatonic
  
• Tone sequence: D - E - G - A - B - D - E - G
  
• Wood: lid - ash, body - pine
  
• Dimensions: 100 x 30 x 35 cm
  
• Accessories: incl. 2 mallets, hygrometer
  
• Ideal size for children, 100cm long
  
• NEW - disinfectable
  
• Biologically treated with hard wax oil
  
• Made in Germany
  

NEW - disinfection  surface - antibacterial and disinfectable

Since our main customers for these instruments are clinics, institutions and daycare centers, we are now offering hard oil surface treatment for the best protection and safe cleaning. This natural oil is just as easily biodegradable as our previous hard oils. Feel free to ask for an European certificate.

Quick drying natural oil
Low in solvents, therefore less odor
Antimicrobial effect according to ISO 22196: 2007
Certificate on request

Usage

The 8 tone Tenor-Couch-Tongue Drum from feeltone is the first instrument with the "feeltone - idea" on the market. To feel the sound while playing is so simply and uniquely realized here. The drum has feet on the bottom and on one side, so the instrument can also be tilted on its side and used as a lying version. There are two ways to experience the principle "feel the sound":

Playing surface on top. Two children sit down at each end of the drum, where there are no tongues, and play the tongues that are now in front of them with the mallets. Slowly it starts, the exploration - the vibration is perceived with amazement in the body and quickly the shyness dissolves and a joyful interactive drumming starts, at first not necessarily musical - the players want to get to know each other - but later joyful, cheeky, funny, refreshing. Creativity is awakened and rhythm as communication connects and enlivens.
Playing surface on the side. The Tenor-Tongue Drum is tilted on its side. The lid is on the side, and there is a blank pine side on top. This is padded with a blanket and a child is placed on it, when the lower legs at the end of the drum hang down, they can also be placed on top of the drum. A player (companion or educator - or an experienced, attentive child) sits next to the drum and gently strikes the individual sound tongues one after the other with a mallet. First you need to pay attention how the person is feeling, when the OK comes - then the slow, gentle drumming can begin. If you keep an eye on the breathing of the person lying down, you will recognize what is going on with the person and when to stop.
The Tongue Drum can of course also be played as a pure percussion melody instrument standing on its feet or placed vertically to save space. It also can be used as a bench. Be careful - do not sit on the tongues.

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

Tones
The 8 notes tuned in D minor pentatonic are arranged in a sequence in which the left hand starts at the lowest note on the left, then the next note of the scale is played on the right row above with the right hand, in this manner it continues left - right - left and down again to the highest note. 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 are pleasing are repeated, from time to time a tone breaks out and new sound fantasies are explored. Starting as a drum with rhythmic patterns that are staggered in time, melodies slowly build up. The Tenor-Tongue Drum can be played with mallets as well as with the fingers and hands.

How to play
With the mallets, the notes can easily be struck rhythmically and clearly in succession. That is to say, one lets the rubber ball of the mallet bounce onto the tongue, holding the shaft as if to stay on the tongue, the soft rubber ball will bounce back. If you now let the bouncing rubber ball glide over several tongues, fascinating sound patterns are created, which can be combined with the simple striking of the tongues.