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Three nuts make a very precise 'shake'. On a carved stick makes a great addition to a musical instrument collection.

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Dimensions: average 9 inches in length
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

A child's size drum with a happy bee design! The frame is scallop-shaped like a hive. The art is applied with a batik method using natural colors that permeate the leather. Includes one stick.

• Handmade in Indonesia
  
• Dimensions: 6 in. diameter X 2.25 in. frame; drum stick is 7.5 inches long
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Indonesia.

What happens when you combine grass, gourd, soda pop tops and stones? Well, find out for yourself :)

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Dimensions: average 3 in. diameter X 6.5 in. long
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

This is an African version of an egg shaker, with hand painted accents and little wrist strap too!

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Dimensions: average 5 inches in diameter
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

Y not? The shaker relies on the artisan to choose wisely among the branches to find the perfect 'Y'. Makes twice the music!

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Average dimensions: 10 inches in length
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

Hand-decorated by artisans using age-old fire-burning techniques, this instrument is comprised of a scraper or guiro made from a hollowed gourd and a rasp that is scraped along the ridges to make the sound. Designs on gourd vary.

• Handmade in Peru
• Average dimensions: 8 inches in length

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Peru.

This traditional drum from Java is comprised of a hand batiked goat skin head with a mango wood* frame. Batik method printing with fantastic detail around the gecko body. Even though these drums are traditionally played by hand, it includes a drum stick as well as playing instructions. It sounds as good as it looks!

• Handmade in Indonesia
  
• Dimensions: 9-inch D x 2.3 in. frame H; drum stick is 7 inches long
  

*This product is made with farmed mango wood that comes exclusively from managed plantations. As mango trees age, they stop bearing fruit altogether and only then are harvested for their wood. Before reaching this stage, however, new trees are always planted; thus continuing a sustainable cycle ensuring no harm to the natural environment.

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Indonesia.

This beautiful drum from Java is comprised of a hand batiked goat skin head with a mango wood* frame. Batik method printing with fantastic detail around the Tree of Life. Even though these drums are traditionally played by hand, it includes a drum stick as well as playing instructions. It sounds as good as it looks!

• Handmade in Indonesia
  
• Dimensions: 9-inch head X 3-inch frame; drum stick is 7 inches long
  

*This product is made with farmed mango wood that comes exclusively from managed plantations. As mango trees age, they stop bearing fruit altogether and only then are harvested for their wood. Before reaching this stage, however, new trees are always planted; thus continuing a sustainable cycle ensuring no harm to the natural environment.

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Indonesia.

This frog sings a frog song when you stroke its spiny back. Tap the nose or run the rasp up and down the spine to create popular frog sounds. Includes stick - use the big end for the best sound.

• Handmade in Indonesia
  
• Material: jempinis wood
• Dimensions: frog is 4 inches long (tip to tail), stick is 5 inches long 
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Indonesia.

A fanciful fun shaker using tiny gourds and a popular nut. Fast sheer action from a well balanced stick! Also reminds me of a magic wand or scepter, which means it is fun to simply hold it!

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Dimensions: average 11 inches in length
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

Bottle caps provide a lively 'jingle' and local flavor to this attractive and easy-to-hold wooden tambourine.

• Handmade in Bali, Indonesia
  
• Dimensions: 8 in. X 4 in. X 1.5 in.
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Indonesia.

This frame drum includes jingle bells and a colorful ribbon.

• Handmade in Peru
• Dimensions: 6-inch head, 1.5 in. frame
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Peru.

Woven on raffia cord, Juju nut halves are strung and sound like hard rain. Impressive arm shaker for the dancer in you.

• Handmade in Ghana
  
• Average dimensions: 16 inches in length
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Ghana.

Easy to play! This 13 hand-tuned tubes in a curved design comes with a string to place around your neck, if needed. This traditional instrument has been a source of music to countless natives of the highlands of Peru for centuries.

• Handmade in Peru
• Dimensions: 12 in. X 8 in.
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Peru.

Cactus plant parts and small stones make "rain." This rainstick has all the interesting aspects of larger models, including the needles which are pounded through the shell and then clipped. The stones bounce off the needles to make the rain sound.

• Handmade in Chile
  
• Average dimensions: 10 in. L x 1.75 in. D
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Chile.

This traditional seed shaker features a velcro closure that fits easily around ankles and arms.

• Handmade in Peru
• Dimensions: average 5 inches in diameter
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Peru.

This shaker is a traditional instrument of the Amazon jungle, it is very light but produces a great sound.

• Handmade in Peru
• Dimensions: average 14 inches in length (including the sisal)
  

With every product you purchase, you are helping provide employment, educational opportunities and medical care to artisans in Peru.