Bingbangbong.com

About

We have a background in Early Years Sound Play and Music delivery and this is seen in our high tuning standards, our use of colour and markings on the instruments for children and the games and activities that we make available to customers.

Our Outdoor Musical Instruments are designed primarily for wall mounting. With no frame cost nor foundations to lay, this provides the most cost effective, most creative & safest range of layout options PLUS it keeps your playground space free. Of course we can provide frames if that better meets your site's and clients' needs, but consider reclaiming a wall first!

Tuning

because of our tunings, our pentatonic Dragon instruments can be accessible by all ages, requiring no previous ability to engage in sound play, we also make two full chromatic octaves, in piano style. There are considerations regarding which tuning mode is most useful for your needs. See the Musical Scales sidebar or contact us for more information.

Because of our Early Years music background, we focus a lot on the Pentatonic or 'dragon' tuning. This is a key building block for Early Years music and it is particularly recommended by DfES for  KS1 & KS2 use in primary schools. We use a C Major Pentatonic scale CDEGA and resolve the scale with a high C note.

Client Area

As former Early Years music practitioners, rather than simply selling you equipment, we seek to add value to your experience by providing sound play games and activities for clients' use. We are currently in the process of writing the bingbangbong pentatonic songbook full of original and child-friendly songs all of which will be made freely available to customers. Aka Baka Shaka Laka Ping Pang Pong anyone?

Scales

Of course we also make standard Diatonic (white notes on piano ) and Chromatic (All white and all black notes) scales. The piano layout and colour scheme are universal and these would be suitable for placement in middle & upper schools, teaching or performance environments or in a public place where passers-by can tap out a tune.

Many of our Outdoor Musical Instruments are tubular-chime based. This provides a beautifully clear fundamental tone. Please listen to sample sounds of our instruments. We can make useful sounds from almost anything as evidenced by our Consulting work with Stomp,  however not every material is suitable for outdoor use, not every shape is safe and we are led by user safety as our #1 priority followed by client satisfaction. We build to BS EN 1176:2009-Part 1.

Bingbangbong's founder Paul Marshall is a former Early Years Music Facilitator and experienced workshopper. All clients are invited to access our small but unique range of client game & activity primers designed by Paul to facilitate use in the classroom. No scary dots on lines more like colours of socks or telephone numbers.