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Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes, C Major Diatonic Scale | 
| Brand: Boomwhackers
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $17.99
You Save: $6.99 (28%)
New (7) from $17.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 661
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.5
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.5 x 29
This 8-note set allows more songs to be played and is generally preferred over the pentatonic scale by most music educators and people more familiar with music.
MPN: BWDG
Model: BWDG
ASIN: B0002E2MCI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Boomwhackers are tuned plastic percussion tubes. | | • | Play by (gently!) striking almost anything: a table, the floor, your thigh or hand, a shoe. | | • | Different surfaces can produce different qualities of sound (but always the same pitch) |
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Product Description
This set includes 8 pitches, starting at middle C and extending up to high C; a different color is used for each pitch: C1 (red); D1 (orange); E1 (yellow); F1 (light green); G1 (aqua); A1 (violet); B1 (fuchsia); C2 (red). This set contains tubes ranging in length from 12" - 24".
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| Customer Reviews:
Boomwhackers are great asset February 8, 2008
E. Hogue (Canton, OH USA)
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.
 It's "okay" December 28, 2007
Katharine W. Wheeler (Simpsonville, SC)
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.
 Didn't hold my son's attention November 21, 2007
Wade Young (Denver, CO)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
 Simple is good May 13, 2007
J. Goble (Boston, MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Great teaching tool. September 12, 2005
Ronald Sears (Mableton, Ga United States)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
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