Department of Music Studies
Music Education Lab
Musical instruments and teaching resources
The Music Education Lab has a range of musical instruments and teaching equipment used in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and related events. Working with these resources enables students to connect pedagogical theory with practice.
Musical instruments
- Congas with stands, 11″ and 12″
- Goblet drums (toumbeleki)
- Nalaraj
- Cajon
- Bongos
- Bendir frame drums
- Tambourine
- Hand drum 25’’ & 30’’
- Talking shaker (African tone)
- Small and large hand drums
- Güiro
- Small, medium and large triangles
- Castanets (pairs)
- Maracas
- Talking shaker
- Small and large cabasas
- Jingle bells
- Cymbals
- Tone block
- Chopsticks
- Buckets and sticks for bucket drumming
- Diatonic and chromatic metallophones
- Metallophones with separate bars
- Glockenspiel
- Soprano and alto xylophones
- Diatonic and chromatic bass xylophone
- Diatonic glockenspiel with chromatic bars
- Chromatic–diatonic glockenspiel
- Kalimba 9 & 11
- Soundbells diatonic
- Soundbellows
- Ocean drum 25’’ & 30’’
- Diatonic and chromatic Boomwhacker sets
- Diatonic and chromatic bass Boomwhacker sets
- Octavators
- Soprano and concert ukuleles
- Claves
- Finger cymbals (zills)
Music and movement equipment and teaching resources
- Coloured rhythm cards
- Parachute with twelve handles
- Coloured scarves
- Bean bags
- Stretch band