A great instrument, sound is incredible and a great looking piece of sculpture. Will be replacing the sticks with larger ones but the ones included might work for someone with smaller hands and still work great with soft rubber tips. Also included some fingertip mallets but were too small for me, as well as a tuning booklet with some easy tunes to play. Sounds so much better in person than on the YouTube videos. Mellow tones with no edginess. Would recommend to anyone wanting to try tongue drumming. It also came with a nice padded case with a neck strap as well as a handle grip. Well worth the moderate price.