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This is a product image of the African Drumming - Primary - 20 Player Class Pack - Buddies. The products in the pack are laid out and include the following; Back Row - Two Djembe Drum - Standard - 10.5in diameter, 60cm high, natural. Second Row - three Djembe Drum - Standard - 9in diameter, 50cm high, natural. Third Row - five Djembe Drum - Standard - 8in diameter, 40cm high, natural. Fourth Row - Four Seseh - Coconut Shakers, Andy Gleadhill's African Drumming Book 1, Ady Gleadhill's Percussion Buddies Book, Storage Basket. Front Row - Two Agogo - natural, four Caxixi Basket Shakers.

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These award-winning sets combine top quality instruments with comprehensive teaching resources, enabling any class or group to progress from basics to first performance in just a term of lessons.

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We have received the full shipment of 32 Djembes. Our school is incredibly excited to begin using them in music lessons. A huge thank you to DrumsForSchools for making this possible.

Roxbourne Primary

Just a quick note to say that the drums are superb and are just what we wanted. Service and advice was excellent. Would recommend for any school.

Ysgol Glanrafon, Mold

I’m making good use of the drums with my Year 5 and 6 children at the moment but the plan is for everyone to use them. Everyone can do it so it’s inclusive and engaging. Even my head teacher joined our drumming circle yesterday and loved it!

St Thomas of Canterbury School

The drums have arrived and they’re absolutely fab!! Thanks so much for all your help and for the quick delivery.

MEG Volunteering Project

We love everything we buy from you. Fantastic products and service thank you.

Ysgol Bryn Deva

“The service received was fantastic thank you. I used to home educate my daughter and certainly wish I had found your website sooner. I will definitely recommend your services to other parents. Many thanks.”

Rachel Fyfe

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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Malcolm Arnold

Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up, or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. But its principal task is to lead our thoughts to higher things, to elevate, even to make us tremble…

Friederich Nietzsche

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

Aristotle

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

Tom Petty

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.

Billy Joel
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