Freenotes are unique, captivating outdoor musical instruments that are easy and fun to play  whether you are a beginner or an expert.  This enjoyable experience  offers a great sensory play  experience that contributes toward your overall well being. Freenotes Harmony Park playgrounds aspire to enrich learning and lifelong enjoyment of music. With Freenotes instruments, free musical expression is simple for everyone — musical knowledge is not necessary.

These sculptural percussion instruments deliver the highest quality sound while withstanding the rigorous play of children and the extreme elements of nature.  The tones are pure and soothing and being tuned to the pentatonic scale, there can be no wrong notes!

Grammy award winning musician Richard Cooke created Freenotes to assure musical success for all players.  Freenotes use compatible major, minor and modal components extracted from the familiar C major scale.  Every sound is complimentary in a manner similar to an orchestra.  The more Freenotes in your playground the greater the musical adventure.

Freenotes Harmony Park instruments enable children to discover confident self-expression that is accessible and enriching.  Making music simple and readily available to our children often develops their interest in pursuing music in a more traditional sense.

Musical Playgrounds

Great for school playgrounds, parks, forests and community projects, these instruments can be installed in any combination.  Any grouping of Freenotes instruments delivers quality of sound - right from the start - for both the player and those listening nearby. Several of our instruments are ideal for wheelchair accessible playgrounds. Freenotes also make perfect outdoor music therapy instruments for children and adults alike. Playing music is fun and easy for both young and old and the sounds created are always pleasing.

This collection of Nine instruments includes: Pegasus, Glass Imbarimba, Tuned Drums, Swirl, Manta Ray, Contra Bass Chimes, Sunset on the Yantzee, Saturn's Chimes and Spinners. Consultation is available to help you choose the right ensemble for the setting and your budget.  We highly encourage a minimum of three instruments as a core ensemble.  Additional instruments can be added at any time.

The Rhyme and the Reason

When children play an instrument or learn a new dance move, they experience a unique integration of body and mind.  Sensory integration is crucial to a child's readiness for subjects such as reading, writing and math.  This process of kinesthetic learning has also been proven to work in helping children with special needs such as ADD, ADHD and autism.

Musical play allows children to make choices and to enjoy themselves in a spontaneous, intuitive manner.  Coupled with the outdoor environment and all that it encompasses, Freenotes deliver a rare and exciting learning opportunity that is child focused and socially dynamic.