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We are manufacturers of high quality African drums & accessories
We are specialized in Djembé making for professional use and in teaching
traditional Djembe music. Our homebase & shop are in Germany near
Koblenz from where we ship our instruments worldwide. We founded our
company in 1999 and registered the name 'Djembé Art' in January 2004.
Djembé Art ® is our registered trademark. 
- We spread the Reputation of the Drum throughout the World.
- We do what we love and we love what we do.
- We have the majority of our drums specially built according to our precise specifications and our high quality standards by the best and most experienced craftsmen in Africa.
- All drums are carefully checked and tuned in our own workshop.
- Sound , professional quality and design have top priority.
- We build outstanding individual and unique instruments in our own music workshop and design them with great love, care and devotion down to many details.
- Handmade instruments made from natural materials are real personalities for us with a very lively individual character.
- An old African friend once said to us "with you the drums have a home" :-)
- It gives us special pleasure to introduce the finest and most beautiful drums to the right player, so that a friendship for life can develop.
Djembé Art is nuclear power free. We use electricity from
100 % renewable energy.
The Art of Drumming
Everything began in the mothers womb!
Was life there not filled with sounds and noises from the mothers body
and from the outside world?
But is was primarily movement. Constant movement.
When the mother sat, when she walked, stood, turned round:
Movement, movement, movement.
Movement is the pulse beat of life, a rhythm, artisticly woven
in the passage of time.
Listen attentively with all your senses, with your entire body,
with your whole being, so that you can feel
the elemental force of the rhythm.
Every skill requires
a specific technique which one must learn.
Art comprises much more than just technique,
and in time you will penetrate the intrinsic reality.
But you must first control the technique so completely,
that you can again forget it.
Observe and follow the inner neccessity!
Then the unity is no longer far away.
No more separating of mind and hands.
Soon the rhythm will carry you from one movement to the next.
When heart and rhythm follow each other
with mutual interaction, drumming will turn to dance.
(from Martina Grosvenor freely from Frédérick Leboyer)