Instrument Making Workshops

This hands-on workshop is designed to stimulate a passion for learning skills from other traditions. It develops their creativity by thinking about materials that could be used. With this workshop the students explore instruments making process and making instruments in a fun and rewarding way. There is some preparation involved with collecting material. At the end the students gets to play music with their own instruments.

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Ideal for KS1 and above, format of the workshop can be customised to suit the curriculum and preference of the school. Below is an example of the format:

Day 1

Assembly performance/demonstration/talk
From one to three workshops of 45 min with smaller groups to discuss which instrument to make and design it.

*Material gathering*

Day 2

From one to three workshops of 45 min with smaller groups to make the instruments and practice playing them
Performance by the students using the instruments they made.

Enquiries are also welcomed from forest schools, after school clubs and universities.