Auris: Diatonic Glockenspiel (twelve tones)

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This twelve-tone diatonic glockenspiel, made of hard maple wood and special brass alloys, creates a pure, almost celestial sound and fills the room (and well, your heart) with the joy of music. A semi-advanced instrument that enables you to play music containing all whole-notes. Comes with a wooden, a rubber and a hard mallet – the latter one giving and extreme strong sound which enables you to use this glockenspiel together with regular instruments even in an orchestra. The hard mallet shall not be used by small children.

For systematic work with younger, pre-school aged children, we advice to introduce the pentatonic instrument first. The reasons you can read below under product description, where you can also learn about the difference between  a curved or a straight model.

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    Description

    More information about the product:

    • Article number: KDH-012
    • Brand: Auris
    • Twelve tone diatonic glockenspiel c’’’- d’’’- e’’’ – f’’’- g’’’- a’’’- h’’’-c’’’’- d’’’’- e’’’’ 
    • Comes with one wooden, one rubber and a harder plastic mallet. The plastic mallet gives a specifically strong sound that enables the instrument to be used even in an orchestra. The hard mallet shall not be used by small children.
    • Material: The glockenspiel body is made of  European maple wood. The tone bars, which carries the secret of the Auris sound, are made out of a special brass alloy. This material gives the instrument an enormous tone potential not only to fill a room, but an entire concert hall with sonorous sound. The ton bars are coated with a thing layer of beeswax.
    • Warning: Auris are real musical instruments, not toys, intended primarily to be used by adults. Please use it under direct supervision of an adult person only.
    • Made in Sweden.

    Curved or straight glockenspiel?

    The curved glockenspiels have a miraculously pure and heavenly bright sound. They were developed to be the ultimate companion to the growing child. The perfect balance between the optic, the touch-sense and the sound of these instruments awakens musical curiosity, and it is a wonderful companion of the growing child to be used in the family, kindergartens or musical therapy.  One should be aware though, that this type of glockenspiels, due to the strong sound, are NOT to be put in the hands of the smallest children playing on their own. The appropriate age to pass such an instrument to the child to play all by itself would be from 3 years and up. Before this the curved glockenspiels shall be played by the adult FOR the child or TOGETHER with it.

    The straight glockenspiels have a full and warm sound. They were developed to be used by the child from an earlier age on. They have a perfect balance between a toy and real instrument. The sound and construction of this instrument allows you to pass it to the child to play beginning from the first birthday (of course bearing in mind, it is still not a toy). These instruments serve very well all the way from the toddlers free music play and early childhood music education to professional orchestral use.

    About pentatonic and diatonic instruments

    The experience of the pentatonic, five-tone scale is one of the fundaments in all music. You can find it in ancient and newer folk music, classical pieces as well as in popular music. Children all over the world spontaneously sings it in various ways.  The special thing about the pentatonic scale that however you play it, it will always sound harmonious. It invites you to play freely around the instrument, creating any improvised melody, and it will never give you the feeling that you are playing “wrong”, even if you are just starting out with the discovery of music. This gives the player the very important experience of “I can” which encourages the love for music and finding joy and lust in playing. and brings more joy and lust into the playing and music appreciation.

    This is the reason, why in Waldorf institution or in systematic work with children, this is the preferred instrument from infancy up to the third grade. Pentatonic scale meets the child’s inner needs, and it is a powerful tool, with which, through games, playing together and listening, the child can learn music in its fullest meaning.

    Later older children can proceed their musical discovery and experience the fundamental of all modern music with the diatonic glockenspiel. It opens up the world of harmonies and you can play both major, minor and in disharmonious manners.

    Maintenance:

    The Auris Glockenspiel has tones made of brass alloy and a wooden body of maple wood. The tone bars are coated with fine layer of bees wax and nothing else. The bees wax provides a mild, natural gloss of the brass. It also allows you to restore the shining surface yourself, when it gets darker over time or for any other reasons of loosing its brightness through stains or scratches. The easiest way to do this is with regular metal polish, available in supermarkets or drugstores. To avoid stains on the wood, be careful that the wood does not get polish residue on it (protect with paper while polishing). Thereafter you can treat it with some wax again by rubbing it gently with a soft cloth onto the bars. If taken care of, the surface will age with a noble patina.

    About Auris:

    Auris is a Swedish company, established in 1973 by the carpenter and musician Kjell Andersson, who has been designing heritage percussion, wind and string instruments for over forty years. The name Auris means ‘belonging to the ear’, and indeed Auris musical instruments have a pure and unique, almost otherworldly sound. They arouse curiosity for musical creation and invite children and adults alike to to gain confidence with musical creativity. Their instruments are loved in many Waldorf institutions all around the world. They are also widely used in therapy and are beloved by many music-enthusiast families who would like to gift pure sounds to their children from the very beginning. But it is not only the wonderful instruments to look up to to this company for, but also the manufacturing process. Auris employ young people with learning disabilities as part of their social responsibility in the manufacturing process.