Tinka Tong 6 – the cheerfulness of wood in your hand
The Tinka Tong 6-tone tongue drum is the smallest and most portable wooden drum from the Feeltone workshop. Its pentatonic tuning and warm, living-wood sound make it a favourite tool for early-childhood teachers, therapists and meditation practitioners. Despite its compact size, the same craftsmanship goes into it as into the larger siblings: every tongue is precisely tuned and the surface is shaped to feel pleasant in your hand.
Specifications
- Size: 30 × 12 × 9 cm
- Weight: 1.5 kg
- Material: padauk (Pterocarpus soyauxii) and cherry wood (Prunus serotina)
- Number of tones: 6
- Tuning: D minor pentatonic (D – F – G – A – C – E)
- Accessories: 2 mallets
- Other: practical handhole on the bottom, hard-wax oil finish
- Origin: Germany, Feeltone workshop
Sound and character
The Tinka Tong 6 sounds quiet, soft and intimate – never intrusive, yet clearly defined. The pentatonic scale guarantees that whatever order you strike the tongues in, the result stays harmonious. The fine hardwoods enrich the sound with warm overtones, which blend especially well with kalimba, flute or other Feeltone instruments. The leaf-pattern arrangement of the tongues is not only beautiful, it deliberately hides the scale so you can play intuitively, without thinking.
How to use
- Personal meditation and relaxation at home
- Accompaniment in sound therapy sessions
- Music classes in kindergartens and schools, rhythm play
- Improvisation practice without any musical background
- Travel companion – it fits into a bag
- Combination with other instruments (kalimba, spacedrum, flute)
Why this product
If you are looking for an easy-to-play yet serious instrument that truly delivers therapy-grade quality, the Tinka Tong 6 is an ideal choice. The pentatonic tuning guarantees a positive experience even if you have never played an instrument before. Ingo Böhme, the founder of Feeltone, designed this drum family specifically to give meditators and sound workers a quiet, finger-played, versatile drum.
Care tips
- Use the mallets supplied with the instrument so the tuning of the tongues stays clean
- Try the bouncing technique: let the rubber ball of the mallet roll over several tongues – you will get magical sound patterns
- Hold it by the handhole and play one-handed while the other hand keeps a beat
- Store it in a dry place at moderate temperature, avoiding direct sunlight
- The surface can be refreshed once a year with quality hard-wax oil
About Feeltone
Feeltone is a craft instrument workshop in Lassan, northern Germany, founded by Ingo Böhme. For more than two decades they have built monochords, sound beds, sound chairs and ceremonial drums for therapists, sound artists and meditation practitioners. Every instrument is hand-built from certified sustainably sourced woods and finished with natural treatments (hard-wax oil).