Why is the universal children’s instrument also universally horrible? Got right out of bed and instantly started playing it.
i love this site. “my kid is making an awful racket with his musical instrument!” “clearly the only solution is more musical instruments.”
unlimited ruckus on the first world 
well its good that the kid’s interested in learning how to make music, so it would benefit everyone if the kid were working with a better instrument that doesn’t sound so unpleasant lol
What can I say? The arts are underrated by too many and should be encouraged whenever and wherever they can.
Why is the universal children’s instrument also universally horrible?
They’re plastic and cheap as fuck to make. RIP to your ears. Maybe you can ocarina-pill your kiddo.
Edit: I got mine a ukulele since she kept dragging guitars and banjos around the house. Still a little too young to learn to play it, but she enjoys it
The bass recorder is dope as hell, though.
Fr. Woodwinds are amazing, but cheap recorders suck and giving any kind of flute to a hyperactive kid is a generally poor decision.
That’s why I was the cool uncle for giving my nephew a harmonica. /s
But seriously, I gave him both a harmonica and a train whistle and I’m pretty sure my sister wanted to kill me for it.
Chaos uncle energy. Where do you get all those novelty 2 dollar bills?
higher quality recorders sound much better than the injection molded ones they give to kids.
Also consider a melodica. The cheap ones still sound okay, plus you can play chords!
Also consider a melodica. The cheap ones still sound okay, plus you can play chords!
Bonus points if you get your kid listening to Augustus Pablo lol
As a kid I hated kids playing the recorder but that was because everyone in my class learnt the same hot cross buns tune and each individual person had to play it at the front of the class one by one. After the 20th time I wanted to jump out the window.
god, i remember that shit. insane way to get kids to enjoy making music.
This is how I enjoyed making music as a kid. Its still fun to play with now
I hated that one too. There’s clearly some sort of conspiracy to only let children under 12 play boring ass music in schools.
Kalimbas are cool. Cheap and they sound lovely like a music box even if you don’t know what you are doing. The sound is so nice that my cat has several times fallen asleep right beside me while I’ve played
I got interested in kalimbas after googling “instruments what a dumbass could play” and they seem very cool. I was also considering a melodica.
There are a bunch of instruments locked into a scale like the kalimba so you can never play a ‘bad’ note. I’ve got a tongue drum, some xylophones, and a ocarina for my kids to eventually start playing which are all like that
Oh yeah xylophone also is underrated I think for sure. I don’t even know what a tongue drum is.
Fucking awesome lmao
Also concider getting 'em an Irish penny whistle, a harmonica, or a jawharp for an extra fun time waking up every day to the music.
Unironically I do wake up to harmonics music.
From the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, but still
I would make my alarm music, but I’m afraid I’ll either grow to hate it or sleep through it, so I just have a recording of some dude screaming “WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE THE FUCK UP” as my alarm.
Last time i had a song I like as my alarm it didn’t so much make me hate the song as it made me anxious to hear it.
Ah that’s me with my phone’s ring tone. I’ve finally settled on Flight of the Conchords’ “Business Time” because it’s absurd enough I can enjoy it without too much anxiety
Aw yeah it’s Wednesday you know what that means
It’s business… It’s business time
I got my business socks on, you know what time it is!
Hell yeah
This is an act of aggression by the school. Obviously the only answer is to give your child bagpipes with the condition that they must only play it at school.
Give them an omatone. Double points if they’re tone-deaf
I play multiple woodwinds, including recorder. Kids aren’t taught how to play it right and the recorders they give the kids are kinda junky so they sound bad. The recorder is a quiet instrument, one doesn’t “blow” through it, they touch it to their lips and exhale, least amount of air to sound the note is always the right way to play it, it fell out of favor because it’s dynamic range is so limited.
This one is one of the best, and I’ve tried nearly all of them since they are so cheap:
https://earlymusicshop.com/products/mollenhauer-prima-soprano-recorder-in-blue-plastic-and-pearwood
Recorder is a gateway to other woodwinds, flute, saxophone, and clarinet, in particular.
I saw a band a while back where the bandleader played the recorder. He was CRAZY good at it. It sounded almost like a sine wave from a synthesizer. I had no clue the standard plastic recorder could sound so good.
Got right out of bed and instantly started playing it
Listening to someone else practice an instrument always sucks, but lemme tell ya I heard my eleven year old brother playing (a simplified version of) Megalovania on piano after about a year of lessons and it was pretty awesome.
TOOT TOOT
play an mp3 of my heart will go on around your kid so he gets the idea to learn it
Seriously though, a kid taking the initiative to jam is great to see.
I mastered the ability to play with my nose back in the day. I bet my parents were proud
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Give him a tin whistle instead
Make them learn On Reflection by Gentle Giant
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