Well I am now officially addicted.
I already 'upgraded' to this doumbek:
http://www.music-store-canada.com/produ ... -sydf.aspxand will put my little even cheaper one on kijiji.
When it arrived Friday I thought they had fibbed to me ... I thought it was ceramic ... but a little scraping of paint revealed it is aluminum. I had no idea you could cast aluminum.
An engineer friend assured me that casting aluminum is not uncommon at all.
Soon I may be as good as your youngest Yoni