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Where can I buy a tambourine?

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I have no doubt that you will be able to go into a K-mart or Wal-Mart and purchase a tambourine. But the tambourine head will be made of a cheap plastic, the ring will be made of flimsy plastic, and the metal rings will clang without the crystal clear sound that you are used to in a quality tambourine. These stores are great, but when looking for a quality tambourine, you may want to look somewhere else and spend a little more money. If you go to even the smallest music stores, they will have a tambourine. Because so many churches use this instrument, music stores in America would lose part of their market if they did not sell at least one kind of tambourine in their store.

The first thing to look when buying the tambourine in the store is the different sounds it produces. You may be bashful to make so much noise in a store, but you will feel even worse if you get home and don’t like the sound at all. Hear the sound of the drum and the jingles to make sure they mesh well together. Grip it and play the instrument hard. If the instrument tends to hurt your hand when you play, or if the shape of it causes your hand to always get in the way when playing it different ways then it might be a good idea to look for another. The third consideration is to see how good it is put together. This instrument is going to be banged against your leg, shook over and over again, and dropped on the stage. You may want to get one that looks and feels like it’s going to last for a while. Tambourines are not going to be that expensive, so you may want to just buy the best one that you can find.

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