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Outdoor Music Ensembles - A Guide to Ensure your Ensemble Performs and Sounds the Best
We’ve recently launched a range of outdoor musical instrument ‘ensembles’ for musicians of every ability. Designed to save our customers money when ordering a group of instruments and to help ensure the combination of instruments sound harmonious and complimentary, these ensembles are a great way to get your outdoor music project moving quickly and easily.
An ensemble is defined as a group of people or musicians playing instruments and performing together. Playing music with others is very different from playing on your own and an ensemble allows players to experiment with different sounds, playing techniques and to practice improvisation. Different instruments playing together can sound great just by virtue of the inherent differences in their character and sound. However as we hear and learn the different kind of sound each instrument makes, we can then find ways of using these sounds in more exciting ways. By listening and paying close attention to each other and making the...
Christmas music and songs - the oldest ones are the best!
This is the season when spades of cringe-worthy Christmas tunes are on constant rotation in supermarkets, department stores and coffee shops. It is virtually impossible to leave the house without hearing them - over six weeks of inescapable Christmas music!
The sounds of the season are pretty much the same from year to year: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bell Rock, Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree, Frosty the Snowman, Baby, It's Cold Outside, White Christmas, I could go on…..and on.
For some, these old chestnuts may inspire them and get them in the spirit of the season. For others, however, it may be too much, forcing them to make a fast exit, leaving their gingerbread lattes behind. I feel for the employees. The tunes created to get us in the Christmas spirit must become akin to Chinese water torture for them after the first week of November.
But for music, it’s actually a unique time of year when a radio playlist can span not only decades but centuries, what other season has its...
Percussion Play CAD Drawings and Product Specifications available NOW! on CADdetails.com
Percussion Play is excited to announce the availability of a new resource for architects, landscape architects and other design professionals to make adding Percussion Play outdoor musical instruments to their projects and designs easy and hassle free.
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Incorporate Percussion Play products into your plans quickly and easily by downloading our design files from CADdetails.com. The CADdetails program is developed specifically for design professionals with the goal of getting manufacturer-specific product information into their working plans.
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American School of Milan - Elementary Playground Gets a Musical Makeover
The American School of Milan (ASM) is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school offering American-style education in the south of Milan.
The playground project was sponsored by the Fund for Excellence who purchased collaborative outdoor musical instruments (Duo Xylophone, Conga Drums and Tubular Bells) for the elementary school playground as an alternative to sports for students.
I asked Sara Griffiths, the school’s Admissions Coordinator, a little more about the project, how they found Percussion Play to deal with and how the instruments have been received:
What originally attracted you to our products?
We were looking for playground equipment that was designed for group play and a great alternative to sports at recess. The instruments are tuned to make nice harmonies and attractive to look at.
The videos on your website were very helpful when selecting the instruments.
How well did we communicate?
There was great follow up and the online chat...
Introducing the Capella Outdoor Xylophone
The Capella is brand new colourful 15-note outdoor resonated xylophone.
Available from our range of diatonic outdoor musical instruments, the vibrantly coloured anodised notes deliver a bright rounded sound and are set to our ‘rainbow scale’ encouraging players to reproduce a myriad of familiar tunes as well as being able to improvise and make their own unique music. The note range for this instrument is C-Major G3-G5.
When speaking of music and harmony, you will frequently encounter the term diatonic. The diatonic scales are the basic scales, or natural scales, and they can all be made by playing just the white keys on the piano.
For example, the key C-Major is the white keys on the piano starting with C - the notes are C D E F G A B C. If a melody is said to be diatonic and in the key of C, it will only use those 7 notes within the C-Major scale/key. You’ll notice however that the note range of the Capella is G3-G5, this makes it a mode of the C-Major scale, in fact it...