MMR Report:
Best Tools for Schools
T
he 2010 Summer NAMM Show featured countless innovative musical products covering the entire spectrum of music making. MMR’s sister publication, School Band & Orchestra, enlisted educators attending the Nashville trade show to seek out the best tools for use
Best Elementary Tool
Best Beginning Tool
Best Intermediate Tool
Jumbie Jam Panyard, Inc. www.panyard.com/jumbiejam
The Chord Buddy www.chordbuddy.com
FT-88 Mini-clip Tuner Shenzehn FZone Technology www.fzonetechnology.com
The Jumbie Jam is a colorful steel drum pan for young and beginning music students that comes with a height-adjustable, collapsible stand, mallets, a play-along CD, and educational materials.
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in music classrooms, with the winning products being named at a special presentation on June 20th. The panel of educators helped select and introduce the following products in12 widely varying categories, declaring them SBO’s 2010 Summer NAMM Show Best Tools for Schools.
The Chord Buddy is a capo that is configured to play the primary chords in the key of G on the guitar. Simply press one of the four colored buttons on the top of the Chord Buddy to change the chord while strumming.
The FT-88 mini-clip chromatic tuner from FZone is a colorful, fun-shaped clip-on tuner that uses vibration to determine pitch and is designed to work on both stringed and brass instruments.
AUGUST 2010