Glad we finally gave in and bought this, one of us has been wanting one for a while. There does seem to be a correlation sometimes between cost and quality, as this was not the cheapest but not the most expensive that we found while searching but I think it paid off.The packaging was more than adequate to keep it safe in transit. The bag that came with it is padded enough to keep the drum safe for regular use and with the strap that allows you to carry it gives some great portability. The drum not only came with the bag and strap but two drum _ticks a song book, finger _ips instead of using the sticks and additional stickers to identify the different tongues. I have not learned everything yet but I assume the stickers allow you to identify different tongues for different music as during my search of different songs there was a lot of different patterns that didn_ always match what I had.The size isn_ too small and not unwieldly making this drum is the right size for our whole family (from 5yo to my husband) to have fun with out of the box. The notes were clear and resonated nicely.We decided to compare the tones with a tuner app to see how it compared to what it should be. We tested it trying to isolate just the tongue we were hitting as some of the resonance might give erroneous response from the tuner. As seen in the video it really kept to where they should be so no tuning was necessary. We also tested a couple songs from the book and one is in the video as well as just some playing around and hitting most of the notes in concession, the video speaks for itself.Overall this was a great buy, it really made a couple people in my family happy with the ability to just make music out of the box. The quality, weight, apartment durability and most importantly the sound is just what we were looking for.
gina 
