Headless Tambourine – Arch Shape, 16 Stainless Steel Jingles

The arch is the flagship of our headless tambourine family: an ergonomic ABS frame with no drumhead at all — just a sixteen-bell stainless jingle set carried on a shell shaped to sit in small hands. There is no skin to tear, no tuning to drift and nothing to replace; the instrument is the jingle voice of the percussion section in its most durable form. Model 020013, the NEW! shape in the family, ships in black as shown, with multiple colors available on request.

Key Specifications

Why Headless Sells in Classrooms

Buyers who have replaced torn tambourine heads every school year ask the same question: what happens if there is no head? Three answers, all of them commercial:

• Nothing to tear. No skin, no composite film, no tension ring — the failure mode that ends most tambourines does not exist in this design. For rental fleets and shared classroom sets, that is the difference between an annual consumable and a multi-year asset.
• Built for the grip. The arch is shaped around how a child actually holds a tambourine: fingers wrap the waist, thumb finds the ridge, wrist shake does the work. The factory spec calls it an easy, comfortable grip — and it is the detail teachers notice first.
• Stacks and stores flat. The ABS frames nest into each other, so a class set of thirty stores in the space of ten. No shelf sag, no heads pressing against each other in the cupboard.

The trade-off is honest: there is no drum voice. Where a programme needs tone as well as shimmer, pair the set with a hand drum from the same factory — the high-grade beech hand drum in four sizes or the standard kids’ hand drum.

Four Shapes, One Idea: Choosing Within the Family

All four shapes run on the same ABS-and-stainless platform, so a mixed order arrives as one product family with one parts list.

Features

• Durable plastic shell made of ABS — headless design with no drumhead to maintain
• 16 stainless steel bells — the densest jingle set in the headless family
• Ergonomic arch shape with an easy, comfortable grip
• Light enough for the smallest players, sturdy enough for class sets
• NEW! shape in the headless tambourine family
• Multiple colors available per the factory spec sheet
• Frames nest for compact classroom storage
• Packed in full-color box

What’s in the Box

• 1 × Headless Tambourine, arch shape, 16 bells (020013) — black as shown
• Full-color box — your artwork on OEM orders; export carton above, mixed shapes allowed

Product Highlights

Applications

Product Positioning

The arch is the flagship of a four-shape headless family — oval (020031 / 020035 / 020038 / 020039), semi-circular (020041–020047) and bat with wooden handle (020051 / 020052 / 020054 / 020055 / 020056 / 020058) — each on its own page with its own size and bell count. Where a programme needs tone as well as shimmer, the headed tambourine lines are the complement: the high-grade beech and birch-and-leather families run on separate production lines, so headed and headless models can be ordered together as one shipment.

It shares the production line with our own consumer brand Musicube — the same instrument family already selling on the US retail market under the Musicube name.

Quality & Manufacturing

The shell is moulded in durable ABS and the sixteen-bell stainless set is mounted and checked as a complete frame before packing — each bell seated, each retaining pin closed, the grip zone inspected for flash. Because there is no head, there is no tensioning step and nothing to drift in transit. Where applicable, product testing and compliance documentation are reviewed according to the target market and agreed product requirements — tell us your destination market and we will confirm what applies to your order.

Below: the production line where this model runs.

OEM / ODM: Make It Yours

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

• Logo: print on the shell or the bell mounting plate, from low trial quantities.
• Colors: black is the standard as shown — the factory spec sheet lists multiple colors available, and volume orders can match your Pantone on the ABS shell.
• Bell count: sixteen as standard; the oval (7) and bat (12) shapes cover lighter and mid-density programmes on the same platform.
• Packaging: the full-color box takes your artwork natively — no sleeve needed.
• Set building: mixed shapes and colors in one carton for classroom kits, barcoded per SKU.
• Documentation: where applicable, product testing and compliance documentation are reviewed according to the target market and agreed product requirements.

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

Packaging & Export

What lands at your warehouse:

• Each unit packed in a full-color box; export cartons engineered for drop-test survival, mixed shapes and colors allowed per carton for class-set orders.
• 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