Our collection of simple sound makers and small musical instruments offers a first encounter for children in the primary phase to the wonder and joy of original sound creation. Each one of the selected instruments is easy to handle and hardly needs hardly any instruction. The child learns that musical instruments are not mere toys but can be used in many different ways with stories, imagination, movement, dance and theatrical roleplaying. They invite children to adventurous creative and attentive care and respectful handling.
Pentatonic Tuning
In the history of human evolution, culturally diverse musical approaches and systems have been explored and utilized, and it is interesting to see the correlations between geography, climate, acculturated expressions and the universal principles of sound, melody and rhythm.
In the development of the child the different evolutionary steps and phases are reflected and lived through according to the environing and cultural settings, following the patterns of primal human musical explorations and then evolving forms of more sophisticated musical creativity. As we first perceive the created world of 5 elements through our 5 senses and use our hands with the help of 5 fingers so also in music the 5 tone scales or ‘pentatonics’ constitute an elementary form and are used by different indigenous peoples around the world, expressed in many sacred work-/healing-chants and children’s songs. The small child still lives in this original ‚dream‘ state of oneness with the world around it, not yet stretched by the polarity of life. …
