All our musical instruments are handmade by local craftsmen and women in rural parts of Ghana using renewable, natural materials.  Each unique instrument has been carefully selected and fine-tuned to meet the highest possible standard and 10% of all profits goes to the Lasajang Community Project to help with the education of children in northern Ghana.  If you would like to make an enquiry please phone 01236 823869 or email info@teachingdrums.com

Our Products

• Authentic, handmade djembes from Ghana, West Africa

• Hand carved from a single piece of wood

• Goatskin head

• Double weave for more comfortable playing

• Traditional carvings on the stem

• Clean and crisp sound with a good bass

Large Djembe

Height: 25"

Head Size: 13" to 14"

Price: £185

Medium Djembe

Height: 22"

Head Size: 10" to 11"

Price: £105

Small Djembe

Height: 18"

Head Size: 8" to 9"

Price: £50

Traditional Talking Drum

• Traditional  talking drum from Ghana, West Africa
• Handmade with curved beater
• Solid single piece construction
• Goatskin heads (6" to 7")
• Played by squeezing the cords under the arm to tighten the head and change the pitch
• Length 17" to 18"
• Price: £45

• Traditional xylophone made by the Sissala tribe in the Upper West Region of Ghana
• Framed with 14 wooden keys
• Dried gourds under the keys with spider web patches which increase the resonance
• Two beaters supplied
• Decorated with cowrie shells (optional)
• Length 40" approx
• Price: £430

Shekere

• Shaker from Ghana, West Africa
• Hollow dried gourd
• Blue nylon with shells
• Length 12"
• Price: £10

Bolga shaker

• Shaker from Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, Ghana

• Grass basket weave

• Dyed traditionally (different colours)

• Base made from dried gourd

• Length 6"

• Price: £5

Rattle Drum

• Small hand drum made in Ghana
• Goatskin head (two-sided)
• Kente cloth pattern around edge of drum
• Wooden handle
• Length 8" approx
• Price: £8

Agogo Bell

• Double bell

• Beating stick supplied

• Hand-forged by Ghanaian blacksmiths

• Excellent accompaniment for any drumming circle

• Length 9" approx

• Price: £10

Frikywa

• Hand-forged by Ghanaian blacksmiths

• Known as African iron castanets

• Played by holding the pod in the middle finger and striking with the ring worn on the thumb

• Price: £5

Teaching Drums, 80 Stirling Road, Kilsyth, Glasgow, G65 0PT

For further information or to book a workshop please phone or email:

Tel:  01236 823869  Mob:  07876 772022

Email:  info@teachingdrums.com

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