Description
More information about the product:
- Article number: XRP-007
- Brand: Auris
- Seven tone pentatonic xylophone d’’’-e’’’-g’’’-a’’’-h’’’-d’’’’-e’’’’
- The tone names are marked with letters on the tones.
- Comes with two rubber mallets.
- Material: acacia wood
- 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.
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.
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.
