Blog - Percussion Play

Welcome to our blog, where we celebrate the joy of music in the great outdoors! Here, you will find exciting updates about our company, inspiring stories, and the latest trends in outdoor music projects and designs from around the globe.

We’re passionate about the instruments we offer and will share insights into their creation and the inspiration behind them. Our mission is to help you discover innovative ways to bring music to your outdoor spaces.

Join us on this journey as we explore the fusion of music and the great outdoors. Thank you for being a part of our community – we’re excited to share this adventure with you!

Striking a Chord: Daniel 'Fry' Maguire Amplifies the Team at Percussion Play Our new Sales Support Administrator, Daniel Fry Maguire, joined us recently. Fry, as his friends call him, joined the Percussion Play team at the beginning of the year. He has very quickly found his...

- 10/02/21

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HRH The Duchess of Cambridge Encourages Children to 'Express Themselves' - Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 We are almost halfway through ‘Children’s Mental Health Week 2021’: an awareness week launched by Place2Be in 2015 in an effort to ‘shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s...

- 03/02/21

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Libraries Coming Alive With The Sound Of Music! We all know libraries as amazing places for discovering books. However, in today's world, “looking something up” rarely requires a trip to the local library. This has seen a need for local...

- 19/01/21

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Sit Back & Enjoy! This year, more than ever, we have witnessed how the power of music can bring us together as a community. We've seen people finding new and inspiring ways to remain connected to one another, even whilst...

- 22/12/20

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Listening To and Making Music Helps Understand Feelings and Emotions The Power of Music in Early Childhood Emotional Development Music can be a great tool for young children to express themselves and their emotions. Children often struggle to articulate their...

- 20/11/20

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The Beat Goes On - New Inclusive Mallets for Babel Drums and More Both our Babel Drums and Petal Drums were originally designed to be played with the hands and fingers - this creates a feeling of connection with the drum and produces some wonderful, mesmerizing sounds....

- 19/11/20

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*New* Calypso Chimes added to Rainbow Collection Add a Touch of Color and Melody to Your Outdoor Spaces! We’re excited to announce our latest musical creation: the Calypso Chimes! With their vibrant rainbow-colored anodized finish, these...

- 07/10/20

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Music Power to the People - Communities set to become the new Champions of Music Throughout our time in isolation, for many, it was most often music bringing us closer together. Musicians and performers tap into their creativity to share messages of hope and camaraderie, from neighbors...

- 06/08/20

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Bonjour to Percussion Play France! We are immensely proud to welcome Percussion Play France into the Percussion Play Group. Operating out of the...

- 30/06/20

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Quinterra Legacy Garden to feature Percussion Play Instruments Project Completed - Read More: Music-Making and Healing Can Begin as Quinterra Legacy...

- 18/06/20

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Case Studies and Projects We’ve delivered thousands of successful outdoor musical projects and as a consequence have a growing collection of case studies. Case studies are a great way for us to tell the...

- 02/06/20

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The Rest of The World Celebrate World Book Day 2020 in Lockdown Today, over 100 countries will be taking part in World Book Day (WBD) celebrations - albeit in creative and innovative ways due to the coronavirus lockdown. For our British readership’s clarification,...

- 23/04/20

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Duo Percussion Becomes Percussion Plays Newest Reseller Two friends who bonded over their love of family, music and the great outdoors have recently set up their own outdoor musical instrument business and become the latest preferred reseller of Percussion...

- 09/04/20

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World Autism Awareness Day: Music Opens Communication Channels for Autistic kids World Autism Awareness Week takes place this year from Monday, 30 March to Sunday, 5 April. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how people perceive the world and interact...

- 31/03/20

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Bring a little Cuban Energy, Rhythm and Soul to Your Outdoor Space With Colorful Conga Drums Bright, colorful, and hugely entertaining, our Conga Drums are most certainly one of our most...

- 25/03/20

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How music is connecting people amid the COVID-19 pandemic “Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” These words from the famous 18th-century German writer Jean-Paul couldn’t be more timely: they might just as easily have been written yesterday....

- 24/03/20

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Music and Poetry - World Poetry Day Poetry and music have been intertwined for thousands of years with artistic expressions being related, connected or inspired by the other. The two art forms possess certain similar elements, such as meter...

- 20/03/20

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Snowdrops and Babel Drums in Bloom! Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration … in the very teeth of winter – Louise Wilder Earlier this week, we took advantage of a rare sunny morning to take...

- 19/02/20

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Outdoor Musical Play & Children’s Mental Health Week 2020 We are almost halfway through ‘Children’s Mental Health Week 2020’: an awareness week launched by Place2Be in 2015 in an effort to ‘shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s...

- 04/02/20

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Let Musical Mindfulness be your New Year's Resolution for 2020 If you’re hoping to lower your stress levels in 2020, musical mindfulness could be exactly what you’re looking for. The word mindfulness is everywhere lately — people are being urged to become...

- 02/01/20

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Funding Invitation from UK Government to Create 'Pocket Parks' Could See New Community Music Gardens in UK Grant...

- 30/12/19

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Wishing Our Customers, Partners, Suppliers and Colleagues a Very Merry Christmas From everyone at Percussion Play, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas Put your feet up and have a well-deserved rest this Christmas and let every day of the holiday...

- 23/12/19

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Nature's Symphony: Unveiling Harmony Flowers and Bells in the Garden of Sound To coincide with the launch of our new botanical range of super-sized outdoor musical flowers – Harmony Flowers and Harmony Bells, we thought we'd look a little closer at how the world of nature,...

- 25/11/19

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Holiday Park & Resort Innovation Show Percussion Play is ready to meet some of the 4,000+ owners from across the holiday business industry who will be attending Birmingham’s NEC on November 6th and 7th. The Holiday Park & Resort...

- 05/11/19

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Saying it With Flowers at the Tes SEN Show London We had a fantastic weekend at the Tes SEN Show, the largest, most-established special educational needs show in the UK. Showcasing a selection of instruments, we couldn't resist taking along a preview...

- 07/10/19

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