Figure 1.--Toin Gauken had both an elenentary school choir and orcestra. This seem to have been done with the 5th and 6th graders separately, at least these are the performances we could find. Here are the 6th grader accordianists in 2017. Notice the green instrument in the back. You blow into it and there is a key board. We are not sure what that is.

We note a number of Toin Gauke choral and orcestral performances by the older primary (elementary) children. The school is notable for having almost all the children learning a musical instrument. Not all primary schools cold put together an ochestra. A choir is one thing. Most schools could do that with a teacher that had choral expertise. But an orchestra is another matter. Granted that most of the children are playing recorders or another simple intrumentm. But we also see a substantual number of children playing standard orchestral instruments. The only instrumental group we do not see are the brass instruments. Perhaps theybareharder forbyoung children with limited lung capacity to learn. Perhaps our readers with more musical knowledge will understand about this. There were several instrument groups, including accordians, cymnbals, drums/timpani, pianos, recorders, violins, and xylophones. We also see an instrument that you blow into, but has a keyboard. We are not sure what you call that, but that and the recorder we think were for student just learning an instrument and probably of children of limited musical ability. What is amazing, it looks like to us that most if not all of the school's primary 5th and 6th grades are participating. Very impressive. Not just for the developmeny of talent, but because the school enables even children with limited talent to have a musical experience. Education after all is not just to develop talent, but to provide valuable learning experiences for all the children, what ever their talent and abilities. Now we do not have much musical knowledge and certainly no talent, but the performances sounded very good to us. And notice it is all done by one year grade of children. And without any adults except the conductor.

Choirs

We see large numbers of children participating in Yoinin Gauken and not just the best singers--the whole class seems to be participating. We note large 5th and 6th frade choirs. We assume other classes had choirs, but probaly did not have such publlic performances as the older children. Many schools had choirs, but not choirs compopsed of whole classes. School choirs were usually composed of children vetted for those with some degree of musical talent. But here we see choirs in which whole classes seem to be participating. They are led by the same individual whjo led the orcestra. He seems to have really had his hands full. It is not like he could concentrate his jands onm a few carefully chosen chilfren. Tather he was dealing with several hundered singers and orchestra members. He must have had help, but even so his practice time with each choir and orchestra had to be very limited.

Orchestras

Toin Gauken is notable for having almost all the children learning a musical instrument. Not all primary schools cold put together an ochestra. A choir is one thing. Most schools could do that with a teacher that had choral expertise. But an orchestra is another matter. Granted that most of the children are playing recorders or another simple intrumentm. But we also see a substantual number of children playing standard orchestral instruments. The only instrumental group we do not see are the brass instruments. Perhaps theybareharder forbyoung children with limited lung capacity to learn. Perhaps our readers with more musical knowledge will understand about this. There were several instrument groups, including accordians, cymnbals, drums/timpani, pianos, recorders, violins, and xylophones. Here we see see some of the accodian players in the 2019 6th grade orchestra (figure 1). We also see an instrument that you blow into, but has a keyboard. We are not sure what you call that, but that and the recorder we think were for student just learning an instrument and probably of children of limited musical ability. What is amazing, it looks like to us that most if not all of the school's primary 5th and 6th grades are participating. Very impressive. Not just for the developmeny of talent, but because the school enables even children with limited talent to have a musical experience. Education after all is not just to develop talent, but to provide valuable learning experiences for all the children, what ever their talent and abilities. Now we do not have much musical knowledge and certainly no talent, but the performances sounded very good to us. And notice it is all done by one year grade of children. And without any adults except the conductor.

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