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The GUDA DRUM 2.0 StandArt and 2.0 Plus steel tongue drums are rightfully at the top of our product line of instruments. The GUDA DRUM 2.0 models are manufactured from 1.5-mm specially processed, high-quality stainless steel from an elite supplier, which has a significant impact on the volume and allows the instrument to hold its tuning for a much longer time. Moreover, drums made of stainless...
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The GUDA DRUM Double is the next generation of instruments in the GUDA 2.0 product line. How is this model different from other GUDA instruments? It is a quintessential mix of some of the best features of GUDA DRUM percussion hand instruments available today. The GUDA DRUM Double is a top-of-the-line tongue drum. It consists of two 0.59"(1.5mm) thick stainless-steel hemispheres with a diamete...
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GUDA DRUM NEO is a percussion instrument that belongs to the class of instruments known as idiophones.  The idiophone (from the Greek ἴδιος, meaning “own,” and φωνή, meaning “sound”) is a musical instrument in which the source of the sound is the body of the instrument itself or a part of it. You play it by tapping the body of the instrument with your fingers or with soft-t...
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The GUDA DRUM Freezbee is a percussion instrument that belongs to the class of steel tongue drums. We can say with certainty that the predecessor to the steel tongue drum, handpan or hang drum, the slit drum, is one of the oldest musical instruments known to mankind. Archaeologists in Central and South America discovered that these drums were used in everyday life by the Aztecs and other tribes ...
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You select the design for your Guda drum, which is then hand engraved by a master. The symbols engraved on the drum not only please the eye, but they also impart meaning to the instrument, imbuing the sounds it produces with a special power. You need only select a design that resonates with you and your artistry. The older the symbol, the deeper its meaning, and the more nuances it contains within...
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The dreamcatcher is an ancient Indian talisman that served as protection against evil spirits. It’s no accident that it bears a resemblance to a spider web: the Indians believed that bad dreams would be ensnared in the web, while good dreams would slip through the hole in the center, and from there be channeled into the sleeper.The symbols engraved on the drum not only please the eye, but t...
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One of the most enigmatic symbols we use in adorning GUDA pandrum, meditative drums is the Aztec Calendar. The ancient civilization of Mesoamerica created a thriving empire on the territory of what is now Mexico, with elaborate architectural monuments, and an intricate network of roads, all of which came to an end with the arrival of the Spanish conquerors. Once in the Americas, the conquistador...
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Throughout the universe, rhythm and form are two languages common to all humankind. They represent two beginnings from which the entire universe emerged, two sources of artistic inspiration, the two essential conduits for the transfer of knowledge. These two beginnings are intertwined in the design of the ancient meditation mandalas of the GUDA steel tongue drum, where they reinforce each other. T...
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At the dawn of civilization, when people created the first percussion instruments, logical thinking, as we have come to understand it, did not yet exist. What today’s scholars call “pre-logical" thinking was distinguished primarily by synthetics, where an entire story, or at least a wealth of information, was packed into a single image rather than, say, many volumes of writing. The first synth...
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The first musical instruments invented by man were a variety of drums and percussion instruments, and this was not by chance. If you explore the myths and legends of cultures around the world, you’ll find that in them, the rhythm of the drums could not only awaken the creative energy of the human soul, but it was also the key to the rhythm of the universe. It is this same rhythm that fashioned o...
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The drum is regarded as the oldest musical instrument on Earth. Although the oldest drums found by archaeologists are 8-9 thousand years old, people began inventing and using percussion instruments much, much earlier. Even monkeys like to beat a rhythm by striking hollow trees, and the rhythmic beating of a mother's heart is the first, most familiar sound that a child hears in the womb. All aroun...
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