12″ Steel Tongue Drum with 13 Tones – 4 Colors

The 12-inch steel tongue drum is where this line stops being a starter instrument and starts being a performance one: 13 hand-carved tongues — two more than the 6″ and 8″ — on a 305 mm shell that moves noticeably more air. The scale runs a full major thirteenth from G3 to E5, adding the low end that meditation and sound-bath players keep asking for, and the build quality meets professional performance needs while staying beginner friendly. Four colorways — Red (211210), AURATUS gold (211211), Dark Blue (211212) and Black (211213) — share one hand-tuned body.

Key Specifications

Four Colorways from Signal Red to Obsidian Black

The 12″ palette runs darker and more adult than the smaller sizes — these are drums bought for studios and living rooms, not just playrooms:

Thirteen Tones: What the Two Extra Voices Do

• The scale grows downward, not upward: G3 and A3 sit below where any 11-tone drum reaches, so melodies can descend instead of stopping
• A complete G3–E5 run of 13 notes gives accompaniment players real chord choices — thirds and sevenths the smaller drums cannot voice
• The bigger 305 mm shell and deeper pitch mean longer sustain: notes hang in the air, which is exactly what sound-bath and yoga work wants
• Same carved note markings and colored-key sticker system as every size in the line — nothing to relearn when pupils step up

Choose Your Size: the Royalsound Tongue-Drum Ladder

Tuneable Today, Retunable for Years

A fundamental-tuned tongue drum is not a sealed fate — the pitch of every tongue can be revisited:

• Each of the 13 tongues is mounted over an adjustable bridge; small hex-key adjustments raise or lower individual notes if a drum ever drifts
• Fundamental tuning means every tongue carries one clean pitch with minimal overtone clash — which is also why retuning is predictable rather than trial and error
• Steel is stable, but treat it fairly: avoid leaving the drum in a hot car or against a radiator, and wipe the shell dry after outdoor sessions
• Playing with the included rubber-tipped mallets (or finger picks) rather than hard objects keeps both the tongues and the factory tuning intact
• Wholesale buyers: re-tuning service and spare individual tongues are available through the same OEM channel — worth mentioning in your own product support

Hand-Crafted Steel, Pollution-Free Finish

• Premium special steel, hand crafted by master artisans — each of the 13 tongues individually cut and tuned, never stamped
• The exclusive paint process is pollution-free and does not fade — the speckle you photograph is the speckle that ships years later
• Play it three ways — mallets, finger picks or fingertips — each method producing a different surprise sound
• Black round carrying case, rubber-tipped mallets and the full Musicube colored-key learning kit included

Features

• Size: approx. 305 × 305 × 140 mm (L x W x H)
• Made of premium special steel
• Hand crafted by master artisans
• 13 tones with carved note markings
• Tuneable to major, fundamental tuning
• Pitch range from G3 to E5 (G3, A3, B3, C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, A4, B4, C5, D5, E5)
• The surfaces are painted with pollution-free paint that does not fade — exclusive paint process for a clear and powerful sound
• The plastic mallets are made of rubber
• Musicube songbook with colored keys for easy learning
• 2 mallets, finger picks, songbook, colored notes and black round carrying case included
• Great for music education, mind healing and yoga
• Multiple colors available — 4 colorways in this size
• Packed in brown box

What’s in the Box

• 1 × 12″ Steel Tongue Drum, 13 tones — choose Red (211210), AURATUS (211211), Dark Blue (211212) or Black (211213)
• 2 × rubber-tipped mallets · finger picks · colored note stickers
• 1 × Musicube songbook with colored keys · 1 × black round carrying case — packed in brown box

Product Highlights

Applications

Product Positioning

In the Royalsound tongue-drum ladder the 12″ is the deep end of the steel line: below the bright 6″ in C major and the resonance-chambered 8″ in A major, and paired with the 14″ titanium-alloy flagship at the top. Studios buy it for the low G3, schools for the four section colors, and gift programs for the AURATUS gold — same carved-note face and colored-key learning system across all four sizes, one supplier for the whole ladder.

It shares the production line, tuning bench and certification process with our own consumer brand Musicube — the same instrument that is already selling on the US retail market under the Musicube name.

Quality & Manufacturing

Each drum is cut and hand-tuned from premium special steel by master artisans, then painted with pollution-free fade-proof paint. Batch-level EN 71 and ASTM F963 reports are available for every shipment, issued under your brand name. Every drum is pitch-checked tone by tone before packing.

Below: the production line where this model runs.

And the paperwork your import process will need — real reports, not templates:

OEM / ODM: Make It Yours

Once the instrument is proven, the next question is how it starts carrying your brand:

• Logo: gold or silver imprint beside the center tongue, from low trial quantities.
• Colors: the four colorways are the standard set — volume orders can develop custom Pantone finishes on the same tuned 13-tone body.
• Songbook: your brand and your own song selection on the colored-key songbook.
• Packaging: the brown box takes a full-color sleeve, or we quote a full-color gift box from volume.
• Certification: EN 71 and ASTM F963 reports issued under your brand name.

Request OEM pricing for this family → — costed proposal within 24 hours.

Packaging & Export

What lands at your warehouse:

• Each set — drum, 2 mallets, finger picks, stickers, songbook and black round carrying case — packed in a brown box; export cartons engineered for drop-test survival.
• Shipping terms: FOB Ningbo/Shanghai; DDP available for EU and US destinations.
• MOQ, carton quantity and container loading are confirmed on your quotation — ask with your quantity.

Frequently Asked Questions