Remo HD-8514-00 Fiberskyn Frame Drum, 14"

Perfect size, price, feel and sound, for beginners and even more advanced students, who want an economy frame drum.I teach frame drum and tambourine in the Layne Redmond style. I'm mostly an upright frame drum player, not lap style. This isn't great for lap style, so I'll talk about upright.To me, the 14" is ideal for the beginner student. In fact, I played this exact drum for years, even as an advanced student of Layne's!It's so portable, lightweight. Easily packable in your suitcase, with clothes around it. Going to and from your drumming circles and classes, I recommend a carrying case, makes it easy to carry while protecting it.It no longer has the 4 holes to add your cross-style rope for a handle.Personally, I find the 16" Remos to be a bit top heavy for upright playing for beginners. The 14" still has a nice deep enough doum, very good tocs/teks/taks.And you can't beat the moon-look for your divine feminine invocation!Keep in mind, each drum is different, even though mass-produced. Overtones will differ between drums. And some drums will have a higher doum, some a lower one.Yes, the frame of this one is more narrow than the super high quality and much pricier frame drums out there. So no, it's not great for lap style playing.Alternatively, there's the Remo Renaissance headed frame drums as well. Those came out much later, and I'm glad Remo is still producing both. So we have options for our more economy drums!Great for frame drum teachers who want to invest in a 'fleet' of frame drums to teach your group classes.

I love Remo Drums. I am a shamanic healer and use my Remo drums frequently for Journeying. They offer a more consistent tone than the natural rawhide which have more frequently with humidity. The fiber skin makes for a nice painting surface too. I paint the face of it with Caliart acrylic paint and a modge podge seal and in my opinion has not effect on the sound quality for my purposes. I drill holes along the bottom edge of the ones like these that have no handles and add my own handles to the with nylon and leather straps. Nice ditch deep tone. Perfection.

If you can’t spend much, this is the way to go. Many lower priced drums are made by companies that just make cheap crappy drums. Remo makes a wide range of drums - decent low priced drums, but also really good drums to meet your needs beyond entry level. Remo had been recommended to me, but like many buying their first drum, I wanted real hide for the head rather than synthetic. My first drum (from a different manufacturer) had a goatskin head. It cost more than this one, but is smaller and sounds more like a toy than a musical instrument. I’m so glad I bought this drum and will very likely go with Remo when I buy my next drum. If your hesitation is the fact that the drum has a synthetic skin, just know that this synthetic sounds better than the cheap drums made with goat skin - nothing against goat skin, but the cheap drums are made with low quality hides that aren’t of uniform thickness and just don’t perform well.

Bought this to play here outside, wanted a cheaper version for that reason. At the cost I can't complain about anything - it works perfectly! It does have a higher pitch than most but I expected as much. That said, it plays beautifully and is easy to use. I took a sharpie and a stencil to it. I am going to wrap it with electrical tape (instructions on YouTube) to see if it will alter the pitch. But seriously, it's well made and exactly as advertised.

Sounds so much better than I thought. Quality is great and I bought this for my toddlers to play with so I didn’t need perfection on the sound. Went for the biggest size because it was affordable and per reviews seemed like it would sound the best.

Great bang for the buck…pun intended! Simply sounds good and isn’t affected by temperature like an animal hide would. Save a Hide and buy with pride.

Tamaño ideal, sonido excelente

I decorated mine up for the eclipse drum circle, comes plain not drawn on. Great sound. Light weight, Loud or soft variable tones when striking it. Wonderful item