Remo KD-5400-01 Kids Percussion Bongo Drum – Fabric Rain Forest, 5″-6″

Boom goes the dynamite. This thing rocks. ATTENTION! LONG-TERM USE REVIEW HERE! We bought this on Amazon almost 10 years ago as one of our (then toddler) son’s first instruments. It has now been banged on by two boys growing up, their friends, used as a stool, action figure launcher, and who knows what else. This thing is of HIGH QUALITY. Remo makes great instruments. They also make SOLID instruments. This drum is nice because you don’t have to be so worried about the kids hurting it. My acoustic guitar is hung up high on the wall. My…

Which one do you buy? I didn’t know which one to buy and went with the cheaper “rhythm kids” drum. With that one you get one drum “stick” and the drum sound is not good, so I bought the other one. With the more expensive “rain forest” (taller and more expensive) drum you get 2 mallets and the drum sound is much richer; there is really no comparison. As an adult I enjoy playing the rain forest one but would never play the cheap sounding rhythm kids drum. The difference isn’t only the…