Not 1 but 5 musical instruments in this set. (Tesco Instrument Set)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tesco Instrument Set
Date:	20/06/08 (311 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good toy

Disadvantages: none

We have many musical instruments at school. One of the sets we have is the tesco musical instrument set Catalogue number: 201-2509. I think this toy is available both on line and in larger tesco's that sell toys. It costs £8.97.

This set includes a drum with drumsticks, maracas, a tambourine, a xylophone and a clacker.

Drum
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The drum is yellow with one end red the other blue two yellow drumsticks are provided to hit the plastic skin at the end of the drum. Your child could play this with his hands of course or any other beater such as a wooden spoon or a plastic spatula.

Maraca
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The maracas are a red plastic this had a raised design on it. The handle a shape that is easy for little hands to grasp. Although this maraca is quite strong and will take a lot of shaking if it is hit hard on the floor several times it may well break the plastic.

Tamborine
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The tambourine is not a circular one, the skin a semicircle if plastic held by a blue frame. There are a couple of chiming disks on the frame and there is a good handle formed into the blue plastic frame. The handle makes it easy for small children's hands to hold and then tap a beat on the tambourine shaking it to make the disks chime.

Xylaphone
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The xylophone is a small moulded yellow frame with a moulded handle. This xylophone is not very big a 5 year old will begin to find it's a bit small for his hand. Into this are set 3 keys red, green and orange. To make a musical note out of this either tap the keys with a finger or use the drum sticks or a spoon. This again is a small toy a 3 -4 year old would find it fine but by 5 -6 a child would find it a bit small.

Clacker
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The clacker, a green handle with ridges to make for easy holding has 3 different coloured spoons like shaped clackers at the end this is clackers clack well


Suitability
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This set is suitable for a child aged 18 months and over. It is a good toy quite strong, made of colourful plastic .I This is a safe toy the p-lastic not brittle the only sharpish pieces the chiming disks on the tambirine It is attractive to children and they can and do make "music" with this set.

Educational benifits.
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Playing with these basic musical instruments your child will learn the names of the musical instruments and how they sound .Use them to add more words to your childs vocabulary.
There is research that music is good for developing brain cells in the area of the brain connected with language skills also develops the reasoning and spatial areas of the brain.

Playing music with one of these instruments at the school assembly is good for building self confidence too.
Who knows after learning to play with the tesco musical instrument set your child may go on to play a real instrument in a real band.
This set is a fairly good cheap starter musical; set. Yes I would recommend.

Summary: A first musical instrument set.