Melodic Standards
Hardwood Music’s melodic standards blend the highest level of visual and acoustic excellence to create a drum of exceptional melodic quality and visual appeal. The open harmonic tunings allow the novice, as well as the veteran musician, to create new and exciting music. Our careful selection of woods and years of research have enabled us to enrich the simple wood tongue drum with a bright resonance of unmatched quality. Each drum is designed and crafted to guarantee the best possible instrument within the limits of size and pitch selection.

4 Key Drums
"The Picccolo" – our smallest of the melodic standards so named for its bright, crisp tone. Features 4 notes in the key of G. Great for children and kids of all ages.
"The Ivy Drum "
"Quackie"
Bookend Picture Drums
Aesthetically artisitc, these drums are beautiful both in sound as well as design. The suggestive picture depicted on each face offers a decorative aspect to a piece when viewed upon a shelf or displayed around the home.

The Whale - Haunting, minor tuning with an underwater feel.

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The Leaf - Warm mids and lows, this six-key features a standard Blues progression.

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Spiers - Description coming soon

Mid-size Drums
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"The Pentatonic 6-key" Features a bright middle-upper voice range tuned in a beautiful pentatonic scale progression present in many simple folk tunes. "Tongues" stem from both ends of the face.

"The "Geo" Bones" A highly melodic midrange 9 note drum so named for the angular design of the tongues. Features one of several interesting model tunings such as G hramonic minor.

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18" Drums
Our full size 18" sound chamber supports beautiful clarity of tone and endless improvisational variety. Available in 9, 10, or 12 note combinations, imagination is the limit to one's creativity of song.

"New Bones" - Our original 18" drum featuring rich, deep tone available in a variety of introspective tunings.

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The 10-Key - One of our finest melodic standards. This drum has 10 pitches spanning an 1 1/2 octave voice range that welcomes playable creativity.

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The 12-key - An expanded 12 note scale range offers even greater variety of tunings and virtually infinite improvisational possibilities.

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Baby Chorded 12-key - Similar in size to our standard 18" drums, but with a slightly wider sound chamber and tuned in a "chorded" progression in the key of C. Especially fun to play with the hands as well sa mallets.

The Jumbo Drums
Available in 9 or 12 note combinations our large "Big Box" drums offer deep, enveloping sound and unmatched resonance. Like its smaller counterpart, the "Big Box Chorded 12-key" lends itself wonderfully to hand play styles in a chorded configuration that exhibits guitar-like sound in the key of D.