Soprano-Tongue Drum, 8 tones, F major pentatonic

The Soprano Tongue Drum - our classic

This young-at-heart classic inspires with its versatility in intuitive melody and rhythm. Keep your rhythm, change the notes and create melody patterns that you can combine as you wish. A harmonizing invitation to relaxed improvisation!

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Soprano Tongue Drum at a glance:

• Tuned in F major pentatonic
• Tone sequence: F - G - A - C - D - F - G - A
• Reeds used: Padouk (Pterocarpus soyauxii), pine (Pinus)
• Dimensions: 60 x 20 x 18 cm
• Accessories: 2 mallets
• Biologically treated with hard wax oil
• Made in Germany - by feeltone

Sound example of a Soprano Tongue Drum

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10 notes in F major, pentatonic

How to play the Soprano Tongue Drum?

The 8 notes tuned pentatonically in F major are arranged so that the left hand starts at the bottom left of the lowest note. The next note is played on the higher row on the right with the right hand. This pattern continues alternating left-right-left and is repeated up to the highest note.

When playing rhythmically, you can follow a clear sequence or experiment intuitively with the tone colors. You can repeat playing patterns that you like. Occasionally a note breaks out and explores new sound fantasies. Start with rhythmic patterns that are staggered in time and slowly build up melodies. The Soprano Tongue Drum can be played with mallets as well as with the fingers and hands .

With the mallets, you can simply strike the notes rhythmically and clearly one after the other. You can also let the mallets trip on the notes. This causes the soft rubber ball to spring back. If you let the feathering glide over several tongues, fascinating sound patterns are created. This can be combined with simply striking the tongues.

Processing of the Soprano Tongue Drum

The 8-note Profi-Line Tongue Drum from feeltone is a classic on the market. Finely crafted, stable interior, air-dried wood, cleanly tuned. The Soprano Tongue Drum is identical in construction to the larger models, the Tenor and Bass Tongue Drum.

We use padouk because it has particularly good sound characteristics as a tonewood. The padouk from Nigeria comes from controlled and certified logging. Although we are not certified as a company, we can always show the certificate of our wood supplier. It is ethically important for us to use only such wood.

We store the wood in the open air for 2-4 years to achieve the best drying results. Industrially dried padouk is very susceptible to cracking. We process the valuable wood of the trees as completely as possible.

This drum is the finest feeltone craftsmanship made from high-quality materials, lovinglycrafted from the plank to the tuning in the north-east of Germany on the beautiful Baltic Sea and shipped all over the world.