We just received this today so this review can't speak to the quality of the drum over time. We are very happy with it. It seems very well made and came with 2 "drumsticks." It has a very nice rich tone to it. We bought this for our 2 year old and I can tell that this type of sound will be much easier to listen to than him beating on most cheap toy drums (of course this is not an all the time toy... we will only get it out when we want to play it and then put it away. Great for outside play also).