This collection of our most durable instruments has been designed to provide a selection of stimulating instruments that will allow children to make their own musical explorations with only minimal supervision. The beautiful (and tough) basket contains a variety of percussion instruments from around the world, specially selected to be able to withstand plenty of punishment. We know enough about the ingenuity of children not to guarantee that your charges won't be able to break them, but we're confident that these will give lots of stimulation and that they'll last and last.

 

The basket comes complete with a copy of our brilliant “Grown-Up’s Guide”, 16 pages of practical and creative musical activities for developing well-balanced young musicians. The Guide has been written especially for non-musicians ad is in three main sections: Exploring Sounds, Making Music and Using the Instruments to Improve Learning. It covers amongst other topics:

 

Creating Sounds

Sorting Sounds

Talking Sounds

Playing Pictures

Exporing & Building with Rhythms

What Animal is That?

Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

Echoes

Mixing Rhythms

 

and the final section shows how music and rhythm can tansform other fields of learning, from counting to phonetics, making them easy and fun to learn.

All our instruments, and the baskets, are made in Bali using natural and local materials. Most are made to our designs in local villages where they create a useful source of income for families and a low stress, clean and safe type of work.The jingle bell is from cast bronze and is made using traditional casting methods by the same artisans who produce Balinese gamelan.

 

The beautiful and sturdy baskets are woven by hand from bamboo fibres and are used by Balinese artists, musicians and dancers for carrying their costumes and materials.