Music House shelves are lined with an assortment of percussion instruments: various drums, tambourines, maracas, triangles and guiros. A kalimba evokes other cultures and a stirring xylophone stirs the imagination as well. By definition, instruments belonging to the percussion family are hit, shaken or scraped. Because Music House is about breaking down traditional boundaries and using the imagination to expand horizons, the shelves also hold, pots, bowls, spoons, bottles, salad servers and all kinds of household objects.

Children need no prodding to use or invent percussion instruments. At Music House they are used to accompany or orchestrate as well as for spontaneous jamming. It’s a learning experience to watch a child figure out ingenious ways of playing several instruments at once and become a one-person band.