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Great for the price. Very loud for it's size. Tone Very Warm. Records well enough anyway with a condensor mic. Great to add as an extra track for texture and percussion in general. Glad I bought mine.

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I bought this as a gift for my son who enjoys original musical pieces. He very much enjoys it and it goes well with his "backwoods" drums and all. Delivery was timely too and packaged well. Thank you!

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If you want an example of an instrument from Ghana,ie a balafon, then this is fine. However, this is tourist junk that is not of playing quality. It should be pentatonic tuned and it is not. The small gourds at the underside do not add to the sustain of the note being played above. You get what you pay for in this case.

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Hey, I love the African 12-key Xylophone (Ghana)!!! i have been having so much fun! also, I think the price was really good. Thanks!

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I bought this xylophone as a gift for my girlfriend. After reading the reviews, I was under the impression that it is a working instrument. It's not. It's horribly out of tune, and has an awful tone. It makes an okay, but very not authentic, mantle-piece, but other than that it serves no musical purpose. I studied xylophone in Ghana, and their xylophones are much better made; for starters, you can play a song on them. They're actual instruments, that their craftsman puts pride and effort into making. These instruments, on the other hand, are quickly mass-produced to appeal to "exotic"-minded foreigners. Unless you're simply looking for a not-authentic conversation piece about which your house guests can remark, "well, isn't that exotic!" to which you reply, "yes, it's from Africa!", I'd say look somewhere else for an authentic musical instrument. This website's "Dono" drum is a good deal for a decent sounding drum.

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I ordered this xylophone because Overstock has great drums and shekeres from Africa, which I've used extensively in my school and church music programs. Unfortunately, this didn't measure up as a real musical instrument. The scale is not any type of real scale (I was expecting pentatonic or diatonic), but a random series of notes that included no octave points or repetition. It looks awesome, however. The gourds, twine lashing, and hand carved wood give it a really great 'authentic' look, and if you want a conversation piece that's fun to just mess around with occasionally, it might be the kind of thing you're looking for.

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This balaphone was shipped in a very timely manner and was of very fine quality! Great pricing and authenticity. Highly recommended.