This was a present for my husband and he loves it. He's a professional musician but I bought it for him as a hobby instrument and he's having a great time with it. Obviously, it's not going to sound like the $2,000 version of the Hang Drum, but it's pretty darn good. Very impressed with the carrying case too.It comes wrapped in plastic with a thin layer of oil under the plastic so you have to polish that off before you can use it, but that's there to protect it during storage.