Recommend some cool instruments for my kids!

[DRodriguez]

someone should make a kids guitar with frets only in one scale when open tuned.

[MrNovember]

More expensive than most suggestions and toys, but I would totally get kids a Pocket Piano and Kaleidoloop. Mostly because I want to play with them as well.

[Eivind August]

someone should make a kids guitar with frets only in one scale when open tuned.

Some dude in Norway made something like that. The Worldstick or something? Attended a workshop a few years back, but googling it now, I'm not sure if they ever went into mass production.

[adamajah]

A small dulcimer would almost fit that description.

The great ideas continue.

Man I want all teh C&G stufs...

[reckon luck]

My 8 month old is obsessed with my synths. Can't let him play with them alone though, of course. Once he stops sticking everything in his mouth, I'm thinking about getting him/myself some pocket operators with protective cases.

[actual]

Fuck, I read that as 8 year old. Long ass oral stage.

[lost in music]

This bell set popped up on Reverb the other day & I thought it looked nice. Very colorful:

I had these when I was a kid. Dug them out of gramma's attic for my daughter a few years ago. Kinda dinky, but colorful and cool.

not the same price range, but the volca keys was fun for my kid

you need this:

If I ever win the lottery, mark my words my first stop will be the gong room. However, you can get 10 inch gongs for under $50 on amazon. I bought one of these for my wife, but my kids love it too.

https://www.amazon.com/WUHAN-WU015-10-1 ... ng+10+inch

[tabcantab]

I loved playing with a cheapo autoharp as a kid; fun, easy chording for little hands.

[adamajah]

You just reminded me of my mother's autoharp that I also dug as a kid. hmm...

[worra]

I I just want to see how long we can go.)

Sorry. 'How deep we can go.'

Obvious point about millennials is obvious: a typical 31 year old has almost nothing in common with a twenty four year old in 2017. This generational classification system is total nonsense. I AM MY OWN MAN. I AM NOT BEHOLDEN TO YOUR CONSTRAINTS. I CONTAIN MULTITUDES AND SHIT.

Sig'd.


Also, xylophones, otamatone, melodica, a cheap C&G if you can get it, or volcas, cheap monotone or monotribe as they get older

[lost in music]

Just buy them a pair of Vic Firths and everything in your HOUSE can become a drum.

Also, outside of teh $50 constraint, but I've heard good things about these plastic trombones from other parents at the elementary school.
https://www.amazon.com/pBone-PBONE1B-Ji ... ne+plastic

[adamajah]

Just buy them a pair of Vic Firths and everything in your HOUSE can become a drum.

Also, outside of teh $50 constraint, but I've heard good things about these plastic trombones from other parents at the elementary school.
https://www.amazon.com/pBone-PBONE1B-Ji ... ne+plastic

Our house is already a percussion instrument for their wild flailing limbs. Haha. They do have some kid sized wooden drum sticks tho. Those plastic brass instruments are kinda neat - thanks for the heads up on those.

[adamajah]

Update:

As of now these are the instruments my kids use the most:









They're less into the Kalimba and harmonica we got them but they'll probably grow into them.

And i still want to get them some kind of large metal or wooden xylophone type thing.

[thesneakup]

These little fellas might not be instruments, per se, but very well could be in the hands/mind of a child (or an adult who can return to that place):


The newest version might be too fiddly for a kid, but what a cool way to get outside sounds into young ears. https://bleeplabs.com/store/thingamagoop-3000/

If I ever win the lottery, mark my words my first stop will be the gong room.

Well before a wine cellar or movie theater or coin-free arcade, my post-lottery-win mansion will have a gong room. It will be the reason I will live alone.

[adamajah]

Those little bleepers are cool - especially with what seem to be light sensors. When my kids are a little older I'll definitely be looking at more noise making gadgets like this, partly because I want them too.