What kind and brand of instruments are you using?

[Anonymous]

What kind and brand of instruments are you using in your groups with children of this developmental level?

[Samantha M Lawrence]

I’ve worked with older children with disabilities in these developmental levels. I had a lot of small hand percussion instruments with plenty of color choices. These included tambourines, shakers, bells, castanets, cabasas, clatterpillers, guiros, and rhythm sticks. I also had a variety of shapes of drums as well as scarves. I’m not sure about the brands of most instruments. What was important to me was that the instruments were able to be cleaned between uses, they didn’t have any small pieces that could be lost or swallowed, and that if they were broken it wouldn’t be a dangerous situation.

[Celia Grove]

Post pandemic being clean is such a BIG thing! I haven’t gotten to try it, but I know Remo is supposed to have a pretty good clean line that can be wiped off easier I think and will hold up to consistent disinfection!

[Celia Grove]

Most of my instruments are based on what is available and inexpensive but high quality. My boss is in charge of getting instruments, and unless I have a certain item in mind, she gets what safe, inexpensive, but high quality instruments, a lot from West Music or Amazon. What an amazing world it would be if every music therapy practice had an unlimited budget, but I know most of us still have pretty tight constraints on our budgets. Adapted instruments for those with mobility concerns or safety concerns will also be utilized.

[Grace Baer]

My boss is also in charge of selecting instruments for our clinic’s supplies, but I do play a part in keeping track of instrument inventory and cleaning them in between uses. We have instruments that are fun and engaging for young clients and others that are age-appropriate and enjoyable for elderly clients. To my knowledge, my boss does not select instruments from a specific brand but chooses them based on need in our inventory, quality, and affordability. Our inventory includes a wide variety of hand-held percussion instruments like shakers, jingle bells, castanets, and drums. We also have pitched instruments like boom whackers, ukuleles, tone bars, and hand bells. Our adapted instruments ensure that all of our clients can participate in instrument play during sessions.

[Hally Batterman]

My boss at the Music Academy provides the instruments for our facility, but all are safe and can be cleaned easily especially in this pandemic. We have a lot of instruments by Remo, plenty of tubanos for each room, cymbals, chime trees, egg shakers, maracas, various sizes of mallets, pentatonic xylophones for each room, frame drums, two giant drum kits, a piano in each room, desk bells, hand bells, q-chords, accordions, small hand-held percussion instruments, cabasas, etc. When working at the pre-school, I had a cart that I would wheel from classroom-to-classroom filled with instruments that I stored in our instrument closet. The main ones included the same maracas that could be seen in the video for this week, scarves, gathering drum, ocean drum, various small paddle drums, lollipop drums, frame drums, tambourines, etc. I always picked the things that could be easily cleaned due to the amount of germs lurking in the pre-school.

[Brenna Sheaffer]

My supervisor is in charge of selecting instruments for our clinic’s supply; however, I can request any instruments that may be a good idea to purchase and I also clean them in between uses. We have various instruments for various developmental levels and abilities from shakers, tambourines, bells, hand bells, press bells, castanets, drums, boomwhackers, rain sticks, clatipillars, etc.

[Caitlyn Pawelek]

When I was doing home visits and my bosses did not provide instruments I used primarily affordable instruments. I had small handheld instruments such as egg shakers, maracas, bells, tambourines, and castanets. I also invested in some hand drums. Now my boss provides instruments that we are able to take out and use. It is fairly similar to what I used, but at a much higher quality and access to more such as boom whackers, drums, handbells, chimes, and more.

[Leeann Mcmorrow]

I bought a very inexpensive glockenspiel a long time ago and I have found it very useful for working with kids!
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