WePlayWellTogether - Instruments for Music Therapy & everyone else
Beautiful handmade intuitive musical instruments from our hands to yours. WePlayWellTogeterh is the North American distributor for feeltone, Hokema Kalimba, Metal Sounds and Klangfarben. Whether you are a professional musician, sound practitioner, psychotherapist, massage therapist, or someone who wants to play music for self care, we are here to help you find your perfect musical companion instrument.
Instruments made for Music Therapy - and everyone who loves to make music!
HOKEMA has stood for high-quality musical instruments since 1985. The firm, based in the small town of Walsrode, Germany develops and produces unique sound wonders: Kalimbas and Sansulas.
The warm, soft and gently relaxing sounds of the Kalimbas are harmonious in and of themselves, as well as when accompanying other instruments. Anyone can immediately sit down and play the handy Kalimbas. The pre-tuned scales create wonderful and enchanting melodies.
Today the family firm - now in its second generation, with 9 employees - is one of the leading producers worldwide of various models of attractive and easily-playable Kalimbas. The Kalimbas are made exclusively in Germany, crafted out of high quality wood and treated with non toxic oils ( linseed) .
The instruments are produced sustainably in the Walsrode production facility, which is fully powered by solar roof panels.
“Feeltone stands for sensuous sound instruments and intuitive play.” Feeltone has been making musical instruments since 1980.
Tongue drums, monochords and monochord furniture are the core of feeltone’s line of high quality, primarily hand-crafted instruments.
Fun and easy to play, these instruments were designed for musicians and non-musicians alike. One can play them not only for musical enjoyment but also to support the healing work of music and sound therapists, sound healers, sound massage, and the like.
Feeltone was started by the inspired instrument maker and designer, Ingo Böhme.
Today Ingo, his work partner and wife Martina-Gläser-Böhme, and the feeltone team, live and work in the small village of Pulow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, an area where a whole network of musicians, craftspeople and artists reside and engage in purposeful sustainable living.
"Using specific tools, we offer a full range of Spacedrum designed and assembled with great care from selected stainless steel sheets (special alloy), using some mechanical process. The tuning, it is an art. This know-how acquired along the years is a guarantee of quality that we can now produce reliable and sound instruments."
Metal Sounds customers tend to be musicians, therapists, music schools, and ordinary people who enjoy their unique metallic, melodic percussion instruments.
The We Play Well Togetherfamily of instruments - which include monochords, tongue drums, handpans, kalimbas and hanging chimes - have all been utilized in a variety of different music therapy applications.
According to Music Therapist Katie Down (LCAT, MT-BC, MMT, MM):
"possible clinical uses of our instruments include:
Bedside for Hospice Care
Ameliorate somatic symptoms associated with emotional stress
Recreative and Receptive Methods
Clinical Improvisation
Song Writing
Self-Soothing Methods
Supporting Children and Adults with Special Needs
Early Childhood Development
Therapeutic Group and Relational Work
Supporting Vocal Exploration and Breath Work"
We created a 15-minute highlight video just for music therapists to get an idea of the many different instruments and possible applications for their use, featuring instruments built byHokema Kalimbas,feeltoneandMetal Sounds.
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And be sure to join us in our digital booth this week at the American Music Therapy Association 2021 Conference October 14th -17th!
Know what makes Zenko the "Porsche" of Tongue-Drums?
Tongue drums have become immensely popular recently and there are now a large variety of different brands out there offering their own version of these portable and robust metal instruments. You can find inexpensive ones in music stores that are usually mass produced. So what makes Zenko Drums made byMetal Soundsso special out of all the tongue drums that are out there?
With meticulous pitch-perfect tuning, the ZenkoDrum allows you to discover bewitching and meditative harmonics that will level-up your sound meditation and music therapy offerings for live sessions. It's a professional grade instrument that can also be mounted on a adapted cymbal stand (there's a bolt-hole on the bottom! and we have adapters) to add accents as part of your drum kit or percussion setup.
Basically, the Zenko is the "Porsche" (the beautiful European sports-car) of the tongue drum: sleek, elegant, and of the highest quality. In comparison, other mass-produced and sometimes colorful tongue drums on the market at lower price points can be great for parties, playing with kids, basic music instruction, getting all sandy at the beach or simple musical fun!
Basically, the Zenko is the "Porsche" (the beautiful European sports-car) of the tongue drum: sleek, elegant, and of the highest quality. In comparison, other mass-produced and sometimes colorful tongue drums on the market at lower price points can be great for parties, playing with kids, basic music instruction, getting all sandy at the beach or simple musical fun!
