The RAV Vast guide for beginners: what you should now before buying a RAV drum.

To ease your choice, we’ve decided to make it all clear for you! Read this guide before while searching for a rav drum for sale and choose the RAV drum of your dream.

Why is it so hard to choose one?

All RAVs are high quality steel drums. All thanks to our patented technology, RAVs create a mellow and tuneful sound, comparing to an average tank drum. Whether you opt for a classic handpan or searching for a steel tongue drum for sale we do our best to provide you with the best options. All RAVs are made stricktly following the brand quality and design standards. However, they all differ in tuning. If you are not that good at musical theory here’s a short background info for you.

When choosing the exact RAV you can see a letter in its title – from A to G. This letter refers to the drum scale. The letter denotes tonic – the central note that will be struck the most frequently while playing. It also determines the pitch of the instrument – whether its general tone is higher or lower.

Scale can be major or minor. Even if you have never had music lessons, you can easily distinguish one from another. Just recall The Beatles “Let It Be” (major scale) and “Angie” by Rolling Stones (minor scale) and you’ll get the idea.

Choose scale like a French perfume

It’s like choosing a perfume. You need to smell it before you take it. Does it have flower, musk, or herbal notes? Some of them go well and some don’t. As with the perfume, the best option is to apply it on the back of your wrist to understand how it feels on you. Same is for drum.

RAV collaborates with many music distributors and partners. Check music shops at your place, you are likely to have one with RAV vast drums available for sale. Arrange your visit and scent your RAV like a perfume. You can try different drums, touch it, feel its sound and choose the one that resonates with you the best.

If you can’t imagine your life without Internet search, we definitely recommend you to start looking for  steel drums instruments for sale by some investigations in the Internet. You can check the sound of each of RAV drums through the videos in our podcast. We have a great collection of music videos with the musicians playing different RAVs. Save the ones where the RAV drum sounds the most admiring to you. You will also find out some secret tips of the best handpan musicians.

You can watch the videos or just put them on a background while you are writing your monthly report or doing a workout in a gym. After listening to different RAV drums you will understand which one is yours. It will be the drum which sound appeals to you, tug on some heartstrings.

You if you want to save your time and have decided on the RAV drum, move directly to shopping! All our drums are available for online purchase. Just fill in the form and proceed to checkout.

RAV Vast Cast

Like all the good actors, director and operators in a film, let us introduce you a shortlist of all the metal hand drums that are available for sale at ravvast.com.

B Celtic minor

Our personal fav. It has soothing and relaxing and suits perfect for the first-time players and those who don’t feel to confident playing the steel drum yet.

B Celtic double ding

Is definitely a best seller! The drum has an extend range of notes (10 instead of 9) and has 2 bass notes (those are provided by double ding) instead of one.

D Celtic Minor

Is a higher pitched version of B Celtic. Perfect if you love jamming and often play with other musicians

G Pygmy

This one has deep mysterious sound. One of the lowest tunes available throughout all the musical steel drums available for sale. Works great for meditation and spiritual practices.

D Major

Are you looking for a great mood booster? Then you found the right one! This major-tuned drum has a very uplifting sound and is totally beginner-friendly. If you are an intermediate handpan player who tend to collab with the guitarists, this drum should be your top choice.

A Integral

It’s a dark horse in all our RAV drums variety. Unlike other drums it has major and minor chords simultaneously! This is definitely an intermediate level drum, but the opportunities are unlimited. Try it if you are searching for experiments and new sound.

E Low Pygmy

The lowest registry of all! It’s like the King Bell in our RAV family. The sound is so deep that you feel like your whole body is vibrating along with the instrument.

B Kurd

Versatile and wade. Like B Celtic double ding it has 10 notes instead of 9. Is an universal drum and is a great options if you have a wide range of musical ideas and want a drum that can provide them all.

 B Rus

Are you searching for inner balance? Then this drum is your Cinderella slipper. It has both minor and major chords and can be very versatile. Serves better for advanced players than the beginners.

Want to find out more? Check out all the drums in details on our Catalog!

Instead of postscript. Accessories matter

When looking for drums on sale, don’t hesitate around the accessories going alone with it. We recommend to purchase a handpan along with basic case to transport and store your musical instrument. If you try to play handpan for the very first time, we also recommend you to play with mallets. The technique is a bit different from playing with your fingers only, the sound is louder and it’s much easier to play. You can check out the mallets and others products in our accessories section.