People who are saying that might be the victim of tourist Djembe from Art centre .Djembe from that area are meant for home decoration or souvenir¡¯, and mostly produced by a soft subgroup of twenaboa ¨Cwhite twenaboa

The unknown fact about twenaboa is --------there are three typesof twenaboa

1. white twenaboa ¨C very soft and light wood, mostly used to produce tourist Djembe in Art centre , because they are relatively cheap and easy to work on
2. Yellow twenaboa ----very heavy and hard wood , equally hard as Iroko ,but can easily crack when there is a little mark of crack at the edge(especially under the sun , the crack can go all the way from the stem to the bowl)
3. Red twenaboa---In my opinion , the best twenaboa wood to produce a good Djembe . Red twenaboa wood also has a very high density( almost equal to Iroko, maybe a little lighter ), but unlike yellow twenaba ,it will not crack that easily . Which is also the dominate wood for our djembe production .With multiple apply of Shea butter before production , the wood shell will look brown and beautiful.The density of the wood also allow us to produce an even and relatively thin shell

Picture of three type of twenaboa .

To differentiate the three type of Twenaboa, you need to look into the internal color of the drum shell , and see whether it is red , yellow or white .

So Twenaboa doesn¡¯t necessarily mean soft wood , it also depend on the type of twenaboa it belongs to . If the drum is made from red twenaboa and has the right portion and good workmanship , it will also be an amazing drum