Customer Reviews

First Act Player Series Tambourine

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The price on this was great. In our house it's being used as a tambourine for toddlers. So far no issues with it.

I bought this for my 1 year old niece and I think she'll be able to grow into it and play with it for a few years. Good quality and sounds lovely

My 7 year old likes it. The "skin" (don't know what synthetic material it really is) on top doesn't quite make the sound I remember my tambourine making, but when I went to a real music store they had the same quality tambourines. So for the price it's adequate. For a kid (which it's made for) it's perfect.

i purchased it for my 9 year old.
it's an okay tambourine. the FIRST in the name is crucial to the buy.
it's an alright beginner instrument, doesn't necessarily produce the sound that your ears want to hear.

I have to say I'm a little embarrassed to be writing this review, if only because I bought this for my daughter Ursula and then never gave it to her. Like VH1, I really believe in the educational value of music, especially since I was in a Doors tribute band in high school. (I played tambourine.) So I got this for my daughter but when it came and I opened the box, it really WAS a *Professional* tambourine, not a kid's toy. Since she's only 16, I thought I would keep it for her graduation. As I was putting it away, it made that fateful jingle and I got all a-tingle. I started to strum it and high school came back to me, headgear and all. So I took it with me to work the next day (at Wendy's) and I was A HIT with all the junior employees, who started calling me "Mr. Tambourine Man" as I worked the register and gave every customer a little thank-you ditty I called "Tring-a-ling-ling value!"

But the best part was later that week when I went to the Creed/Black Flag concert at the fairgrounds, and took my tambourine, naturally. As Black Flag was warming up, I was striking my tambourine and marching back and forth in front of the pit (like Gene Debs at the Haymarket), when Henry Rollins pulled me up on stage! At first I was a little scared because he's so big and sweaty and doesn't wear shoes, but then I realized that he wanted me to sit in on "My War" and I felt kind of like Courtney Cox in that Springsteen video. And I danced too!

One thing though--Henry broke the skin over my heiney as the last chorus came around, so I have to give this product a lower rating on durability.