Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum
Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum

Margaret's Hand-Tuned Rain Drum

● Last Batch. Only 16 Left

Margaret Hayes

"This turns rain into music."
— Margaret Hayes, 64, blacksmith

🌧 The rain plays it. Every drop lands on one clean note.

🎵 Nine tongues, pentatonic. There is no wrong note.

🔨 Tuned by Margaret's own hand to 432Hz, the older, softer pitch.

🌳 Weather-hardened steel, made to live outside all year.

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30 Days To Decide

Set it out, wait for the first storm and listen. If it does not win you over, send it back within 30 days for a full refund. One email is all it takes.

What Arrives At Your Door

One of Margaret's hand-tuned rain drums, plus a pair of mallets for the dry days when you want to play it yourself.

Shipping

Each drum ships within 2–3 days with tracking and insurance. Expect it at your door in 5–10 business days anywhere in the United States.

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Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Hand-Tuned By Margaret

Nine Notes. No Wrong One.

Lives Outside All Year

Where Margaret's Drums Live

On porch rails. On garden stumps. Under the edge of a roof where the rain runs off. Wherever the sky can reach it.

Where To Set It So The Rain Plays It

"A soft drizzle is too light to ring steel. You want the big drops," Margaret says.

Set it where rain gathers and falls: under the drip edge of your porch roof, below a gutter, or beneath a branch that keeps dripping after a storm. Tilt it a little so the water runs off.

In a steady rain, every drop lands on a note. On dry days, pick up the mallets and play it yourself.

Why People Bring One Home

Instead Of Wind Chimes
No tangled strings. No clanging at 3 a.m. Nothing for the wind to tear down. It only sings when the rain comes, and it gets better the harder it falls.
For The Grandchildren
There is no wrong note on one of these. A four-year-old and a grandmother can sit on the porch and play it together, and every song comes out sounding right.
For A Slower Afternoon
When the clouds come in, put the kettle on, sit by the window and let the weather play for you. It makes you look forward to a rainy day.

What Margaret Puts Into Every Drum

Tuned By Hand To 432Hz

Margaret tunes every tongue herself, by ear. There is no machine for it.

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The Older, Softer Pitch

Nine Tongues, Pentatonic

Whatever the sky plays, it lands right. Every note sits well with every other.

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No Wrong Note

Weather-Hardened Steel

Made to sit out through every season. Margaret's own has sat on the same stump for ten years.

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Lives Outside All Year

Thirty Years At The Forge

Shaped by a woman who has worked steel for three decades, not stamped out in a factory.

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A Blacksmith's Hands

"I Forgot A Piece Of Steel Out In The Rain"

"My name is Margaret Hayes. I am 64, and I have shaped steel in this forge for 30 years.

Ten years ago I left a piece of steel outside. Then a storm came through, and I heard it singing. Every raindrop, one clean note.

I have made nothing else since."

The Last Batch

"Two winters ago the arthritis got the fingers I tune with. So this is the last batch. I tuned every one myself, then set the hammer down for good.

A hand-tuned drum runs $400 and up. I am letting the last ones go at cost. I just need them played by the rain, not sitting on a shelf."

— Margaret

Bring One Home

Questions

Yes, in a steady rain. A light mist is too soft to ring steel, so set it where the big drops fall: under the drip edge of a roof, a gutter or a dripping branch. On dry days, the mallets let you play it yourself.

Yes. Margaret tunes every tongue herself, by ear, to 432Hz. There is no machine for it. This batch is the last one she will tune.

There is no wrong note. The nine tongues are pentatonic, so any note you strike sounds right next to any other. Grandchildren love it for the same reason.

Yes. It is weather-hardened steel, made to live outdoors through every season. Margaret's own has sat on the same stump for ten years.

Send it back within 30 days for a full refund. One email to our team is all it takes.

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