This wonderfully inventive, unique musical instrument teaches many lessons about rhythm, movement, and sound. The pipes are not "tuned" for a very simple reason: Children need to "find" sounds on the playground, just as they find and hear different sounds in nature. If they’re given perfectly tuned pipes in consecutive order, then they will always think that musical sounds are always perfectly pitched and "come" that way. Rhythm helps organize events into predictable and coherent patterns. In music, rhythm is the primary element that creates the perception of time. In speech, rhythm helps us select and extrapolate phonemes, syllables, words, and phrases from an ongoing speech stream. Having good rhythmic skills, therefore, appears to be essential not only for music or dance but also for language and communication skills.

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