26x15 Deep Carved African Style Djembe Bongo Hand Drum

You are bidding on One deep carved African style design djembe drum in a natural honey harvest color. When these drums come off the production line they are graded as #1 and #2 grade.  #1 grade are unblemished and sold wholesale to retail music stores, while #2 grade drums (like these) are sold at festivals, and online auction venues such as Ebay at major discounts.  So you are probably wondering what type of blemishes make a drum qualify as #2 grade??  Blemishes can consist of wood knots, small areas filled in with wood filler and stained over, stains, nicks, scratches, slight dents, size variances/symmetry irregularities, discolored spotted translucent skins, non-intrusive fissures, etc., etc., but nothing major.......these are all decent performing drums, and considering the low price you can't go wrong - I would not risk my selling reputation on selling these if I did not think these drums are decent performing instruments.  We sell many # 2 quality drums on Ebay (we sell lots of # 1 grade drums on Ebay too) .  We are strict about QC standards, and grade our products fairly......check our feedback......We are a Trustworthy Ebay vendor with a proven track record of thousands of satisfied customers - you can buy from us with Total Confidence. The carvings on these drums are immaculate and take much time and skill to produce. Drum Features are as follows:

• Lacey Act compliant environmentally sustainable legal wood harvest certified plantation mahogany wood
• Deep carved by expert skilled master carvers
• One piece construction for superior shell strength and tonal qualities
• Drum height measures 25-27 inches tall
• Overall diameters (including ring and rope hardware) between 14-15 inches.
  
• Playing Surface diameters at approximately 13 inches give or take a half an inch
• Naturally treated (non-chemically treated) goat skin (from the back of the goat - the thickest portion) is utilized on every drum
• Nicely rounded bearing edges for comfort play, superior tonal qualities, and extended skin life
  
• Proper spacing between level skin playing surface and top of head rings to ensure sufficient exposure of the nicely rounded bearing edge for comfort play and superior tonal qualities
  
• Fur left around head perimeter provides padding over head rings thereby promoting comfort play, protecting tops of rope runners from friction and fray, and offering a primal look and feel to the drum (fur color will vary from drum to drum)
• Internally braided 6mm triple layered superior strength alpine rope utilized (note rope quality comparison chart between our rope and competition rope)
• Braided handle serves as tuning rope extension should the need for subsequent Mali Weave tuning arise (just a matter of unraveling the handle and using for Mali Weave tuning purposes).
  
• Weighed on a freshly calibrated Aculab SV-100 digital scale, these drums are coming in at anywhere between 15-20 lbs. - Not bad for drums this size, making them relatively easy to lug around
• We offer much higher quality than the competition because we pay attention to construction detail......we don't cut corners on production costs.  Physically compare construction criteria standards side by side and the competition doesn't even come close in higher standard quality.  You truly do get what you pay for. 
  
• WITH A STARTING BID PRICE OF $135 AND A "BUY IT NOW" PRICE OF $149 YOU ARE GETTING AN EXCELLENT DEAL ON AN  EXTRA LARGE HAND DEEP CARVED DJEMBE DRUM.

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SHIPPING TERMS:

USA buyers:  Please make sure you follow these USA shipping instructions.  We ONLY ship to the contiguous 48 states of the continental USA.  We do NOT ship to Alaska.  We do NOT ship to Hawaii.  We do NOT ship to Puerto Rico.  We do NOT ship to Guam.  We do NOT ship to U.S. Virgin Islands. We do NOT ship to P.O. Box number addresses.  We do NOT ship to Military APO addresses.

Canadian buyers:  Please make sure you follow these Canadian shipping instructions.  We ONLY ship to the following Canadian Provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.  We do NOT ship to Yukon Territories, North West Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island and Labrador, and Newfoundland.  We do NOT ship to P.O. Box addresses.  We use UPS ground for Canadian shipments, because UPS provides a tracking number for ground shipments.  We are NOT responsible for brokerage fees charged by UPS clearing an item through Canadian Customs at the border.  Clearing an imported item through Canadian Customs on your behalf takes time and resources for which UPS want to be compensated.  UPS bases brokerage fees on the value of the item purchased.  Canadians are solely responsible for contacting UPS to find out what potential brokerage fees will be.  We will NOT be dishonest on a Canadian Customers behalf and mark the package as a gift in an effort to save Canadian customers on UPS brokerage fees.  Canadian Customs has seized packages marked as gifts in the past, and we will no longer take the risk.  We will ONLY provide a copy of real value invoice for the item purchased with UPS export documents. We will NOT use USPS to ship into Canada, because USPS does not provide a tracking number on international priority mail shipments, and is notorious for losing packages, therefore please do NOT ask.  If you as a Canadian buyer do not agree to these terms, then please do NOT buy from us.

Foreign Ebay Members:  We do NOT ship to Europe. We do NOT ship to Australia.  We do NOT ship to Central or South America.  We ONLY ship to the 48 contiguous states of the USA, and Canada.

Thanks for visiting my site, good luck bidding, and "May Your Life Beat to the Rhythm of Heart & Drum".

ethosdrummer