The Retreat

Of all the strange things in the world to be inspired by, a tongue drum up for sale on one of the local music supply sites was not what I expected. And yet, that's exactly what happened. The tongue drum, originale To the right, you will see the original object posted to the Facebook sales community. It's a lovely wood texture percussion instrument, clearly finally polished and well cared for. Or at least cared for. Of particular note (pardon the pun) or the wooden tongs which extend into the middle of the top surface, ready to be struck with a padded mallet at any moment in order to be encouraged to scream. At least it should give out a pleasant, woody tone. Not pictured here is the side view which made it clear that the whole thing is a box with possibly a fitted or glued lid of possibly dissimilar wood type. There's also a resonator hole to let the noisy bits out. Without that, the overall sound would be negatively affected. This isn't actually the origi