Maker
Studio 49
The original Orff instrument maker
Studio 49 was founded in Munich in 1949 to build the instruments Carl Orff's Schulwerk required — xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels with removable bars — and its instruments defined how percussion is taught to children across much of the world.
Models
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Studio 49 Orff Metallophone
Concert percussion · Germany
The metallophone gives the Orff ensemble its sustained voice, with thick aluminium bars over a resonator box and the same removable-bar system as the wooden instruments.
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Studio 49 Orff Xylophone
Concert percussion · Germany
Studio 49's Orff instruments have removable bars so a teacher can leave only the notes of a chosen scale in place, which is the pedagogical idea the Schulwerk is built on.
Categories
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Mallet Percussion
Marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, mallet instruments, makers, and model families.
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Concert Percussion
The percussion section's non-pitched instruments: concert snare and bass drums, tambourines, triangles, crotales, tubular bells, and the stands that hold them.
Representative model
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Studio 49 Orff Xylophone
Concert percussion · Germany
Studio 49's Orff instruments have removable bars so a teacher can leave only the notes of a chosen scale in place, which is the pedagogical idea the Schulwerk is built on.