Rain Drum
A hand-tuned steel tongue drum, hand-cut and weatherproofed to live outdoors permanently, so that falling rain plays it. Each drop strikes a tuned tongue and the whole garden turns into an ambient instrument during a downpour. Playable by hand with the included mallets too, but the point is what happens when nobody is there.
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The cleverest object we've added this year, and the only one whose main feature activates when nobody is there. It's a hand-tuned steel tongue drum, hand-cut and weatherproofed to live outdoors permanently. Falling rain strikes the tuned tongues and the whole thing turns into an ambient instrument for the duration of the downpour. You can play it by hand with the included mallets, but that's not really the point — the point is that bad weather becomes something you'd rather be listening to. An unusually good gift for someone who has everything, precisely because nobody thinks to buy one for themselves.
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