A few months back I bought these to add to my growing collection of percussion items mainly for recording purposes. Although I had never bought a product made by Meinl before I felt assured from the reviews of their products and their website that they make good quality products. I therefore decided to spend a bit more and get these branded Claves rather then the own brand kind. When I received this item I was not disappointed, the wood looked and felt of a good quality and nicely finished. The sound that is product is sharp and crisp just light Claves should be! I also find that I use these instruments a lot more than I originally thought as I find they are great to keep people in time when multitrack recording as the sound is really easy to distinguish in most mixes.

Overall I would recommend you to buy this product as a good solid addition to your percussion set.

10 years ago

Quite light, soft wood. A bit disappointing for meinl

these claves are made of a much softer and lighter wood than I would have liked making it difficult to get a great sound easily. They are not very loud. mainly I use them in the studio, which means I can EQ them but live they would be pretty useless