Drum kit as table

The Musical Rumba Series tables contain interchangeable percussion instruments that are played by banging on the table top. As someone who must resist the annoying urge at Chinese restaurants to use chopsticks at drum sticks, I know I'd enjoy this. Joel has more info and a video at Boing Boing Gadgets.
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fragle21

Seriously, I had enough hippie drum circles in college to last me a lifetime, thank you very much.
Xopher

Wow! I wannit, I wannit! Them. Many of them. Whole banquet halls full of them!

All thing are percussion instruments in the hands of a properly inspired person. This just makes the inherent drumness of a table easier to access.
ehkca

It’s been said by those who know me that a quick way to get me to confess to anything is to merely threaten me with the torture that is a drum circle. This then, is my worst nightmare incarnate.
Takuan

good thing you can’t see the leg irons
Scott Lenger

Awesome!

I never resist the urge, and when dining non-asian I often borrow my neighbors butter knife. A tall glass of ice water makes a nice bell.
Takuan

fine, so long as you have rhythm.

Non-drummers who chop stick should have their hands nailed to the table with them
ill lich

Wow– automatic drum circ. . . uhhh. . . drum “square.”

This could definitely encourage the forming of certain bad habits if you have kids and use it as a kitchen table.
huntsu

I desperately want to have one of these in my house, but would probably be divorced six months after it came in. And my husband would leave the kid and I — who are both compulsive drummers — and move to a soundproof room.
Anne K.

As most of our immediate family reunion dinners end in improvised tableware drum jams between the three drummers, I think this is totally awesome and I’m buying one for our cabin.
krylon

I’ll take 6!

… and put a pneumatic gun into one corner that shoots superballs. The ensuing fracas should be amazing.
EH

#2: Apparently you’re not a drummer, as every drummer knows that “everybody’s a drummer.”
sylvies_mammacita

Has anyone used one of these things? I’d like to hear of some real life experiences. Or how about directions on how to make an inexpensive one at home.
gmo

This is cool, no doubt about it…and although my chop-sticks probably wouldn’t do the table drums justice – I’d rather bang away on something like this:
http://www.getusb.info/usb-drum-kit/