Diatonic Set of 8 Boomwhackers

by Whacky Music

Product Features

• Boomwhackers are tuned plastic percussion tubes.
• Play by (gently!) striking almost anything: a table, the floor, your thigh or hand, a shoe.
• Different surfaces can produce different qualities of sound (but always the same pitch).
• Age: 3 years and older

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 x 29 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002E2MCI
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,458 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

This set includes 8 pitches, starting at middle C and extending up to high C; a different color is used for each pitch: C1 (red); D1 (orange); E1 (yellow); F1 (light green); G1 (aqua); A1 (violet); B1 (fuchsia); C2 (red). This set contains tubes ranging in length from 12" - 24".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great teaching tool., September 11, 2005

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Ronald Sears (Mableton, Ga United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diatonic Set of 8 Boomwhackers

Boomwhackers are wonderful for teaching children or adults elementary music. They are virtually indestructible and can be use in a variety of teaching situations. And that are very resonable in price. I do recommend also purchasing the Octavator caps.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple is good, May 13, 2007

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J. Goble (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diatonic Set of 8 Boomwhackers

Love these for teaching purposes. They work a bit like choir chimes or handbells; every kid gets one and only plays it when their pitch comes round in the song. If you want to get fancy, you can also get the chromatic set that will give you the "black keys" on the piano. Boomwhacker also makes caps to fit over the ends of the tubes that will lower the sound by an octave; I found that the kids like the deeper sound and find it easier to distinguish pitch. You can hit two or more together to make a chord; you can play them with mallets for a different timbre; they're near on impossible to break. Perfect.

A note to other music teachers: the notation software Sibelius has a feature that will color in noteheads in Boomwhacker colors. Very, very handy. And they're getting more popular, so there are lots of materials available for them if you don't want to write your own, some with accompaniment CDs. I recommend getting enough sets so that the kids don't have to take turns and dividing them into groups by pitch; they're braver when they have a buddy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars kids love them, January 10, 2009

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Alisha K. Smith "A, Smith" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diatonic Set of 8 Boomwhackers

My 12 yr old daughter learned to play these at school. She taught cousins ages 7, 4, and 3 to play Jingle Bells for Christmas. They had lots of fun and we could even tell what they were playing.