Finger-played beatbox - 4 tone wood tongue drum

This hand-tuned wooden tongue drum from http://tonginstruments.com has 4 tones, a punchy woody sound, and is very compact. You can play complex rhythms, fast rolls and slaps with one or both hands.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• finger-played
• drum
• tuned percussion
• wood drum
• african
• rhythm
• reggea
• slaps
• rolls

[misdeemama]

Nice sound, what type of wood is it made from?

[tonginstruments]

@misdeemama :

the tongues are from meranti, on a softwood base.

[thehornboy]

awesome

are you tuning the harmonics on them?

[tonginstruments]

just tuning the fundamental (enough work already :-) With wood, the overtones are not a problem.

[Cooltapes14]

you are very talented! has anyone ever told you that you look like the movie actor Tim Blake Nelson?

[tonginstruments]

glad you likes the vid. I'd never heard of the guy, but yeah there is a similarity

[frazier36]

wooooaaaa!!! That was awesome!! So glad some1 out there is making and selling such a cool little instrument! This just stepped to the front of the line for instruments I must own, will be contacting you through your website within a month!

[brunildeful]

hi coen, how are you?.. I miss you... :-)) I hope you are good... a little kiss. Barbara