Customer Reviews

Diatonic Set of 8 Boomwhackers

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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.

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.

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.

The boomwhackers are great! They teach kids different music notes while having fun doing it. Plus they sound absolutely cool when the kids do a performance with them.

What a wonderful way to teach a class about sound and music. My children loved this prodruct.

Kids love these things. The only problem is that it takes a bunch of them to truly produce enough dynamic level to tell what you are playing. So, I've purchased two sets. Then I bought a book and discovered that I basically need everything offered in order to produce a good sound. So, if you're prepared to purchase everything, then great. If not, then just stick with percussion instruments

Purchased Boomwhackers to excite and further involve our children in Sunday/Wednesday services. They are simple, easy to use, and provide a new dimension to teaching and learning music.

My kids played with it a few times then forgot it about it. I thought it would have more vibration or "boom" to it. Banging pots and pans is more fun.

My son plays (or plays with) drums, guitar and piano. He loves banging on musical instruments. He is 5 years old. However, these did not hold his attention for 5 minutes. The sound is plastic sounding, not authentic at all. He never played with these things; we finally gave them away.

Wade Young