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ORFF ASSOCIATION LINKS

AUSTRALIA

Australian National Council of Orff-Schulwerk (ANCOS)

Tasmanian Orff Schulwerk Association

West Australian Orff Schulwerk Association

Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia

New South Wales Orff Schulwerk Association

OVERSEAS

VOSA SPONSORS

ALFRED MUSIC PUBLISHING

Alfred Music Publishing is the world’s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational, reference, pop, and performance materials for teachers, students, professionals, and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument, style, and difficulty level. Alfred’s home office is located in Los Angeles with domestic offices in Miami and New York as well as offices around the world, including Australia, Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

In addition to its own titles, Alfred distributes products from over 50 companies, including Belwin, Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, Dover Publications, DW Drums, Faber Music, Highland/Etling, Kalmus, Penguin, TASCAM, Ultimate Support, and WEA.

OPTIMUM PERCUSSION

Optimum Percussion offer the full range of concert and orchestral musical instruments and accessories. Their particular expertise has lead them to specialise in concert percussion. Their strong product knowledge, combined with an excellent range of percussion and music products, is now providing a valuable percussion resource throughout Australia. 

Optimum Percussion can offer fabulous advice on all of their instruments, music and mallets. They will also search high and low to source any unusual percussion equipment you might need. They are proud of their hiring service which has introduced many students to the world of Percussion. Optimum will also repair any percussion instruments, getting them out of the store room and into service as quickly as possible.

MUSIC EDUCATION RESOURCES SUPPLIERS

African Drumming

Sharing the music, groove & spirit of West Africa for over 10 years

Australia Wide Workshops & School Programs

Instrument Wholesale packages for schools

Teacher Training PD's 

Bushfire Press

Bushfire Press is an Australian publishing house servicing Performing Arts Education in primary and post primary schools and non-professional and youth theatre.

Fun Music for Little Kids

Music Education resources for early childhood

Established by Lynne Pilbrow in 2002 in Canberra, Australia. It began as a music teaching business and rapidly expanded with the production of the FunMusic for Little Kids educational resources.

Kidsnmusic

Kids 'n' Music composes fun and funky instructional songs designed for early childhood - with a focus on early intervention. Original and upbeat songs that reinforce the therapy concepts set in place by speech therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, kinesiologists and yoga teachers.

•Professional Development Music Workshops for adults
•Music Classes for 0-4 year old children on a regular basis
•Resources from the You Gotta Get Up series 
•Kids 'n' Music Incursions

The above services currently operate mainly in Western Australia but are in the process of heading further afield...
Musaics

Located east of Melbourne, and specialising in repairs, replacement parts and sales of tuned and non-tuned percussion instruments. This includes school and classroom musical instruments such as xylophones, metallophones, glockenspiels, hand-drums etc (Orff instruments), as well as concert xylophones, vibraphones, marimbas, glockenspiels, timpani etc.

Musaics also replace velum heads on hand drums and banjo style instruments, which include banjos, banjo guitars, banjo mandolins etc.

Musaics is able to supply a range of replacement parts, accessories, including various rubber components, notes (bars or keys) for xylophone, vibraphone, marimba and glockenspiels, pins (for classroom instruments) etc. They also re-tune instruments, refurbish frames etc. Repairs to timpani include adjustments to repairing or fitting tuning mechanisms, pedal mechanisms etc.

Musicisum

Donna Marwick O'Brien is an experienced music educator, composer and singer. She presents workshops for music educators.

Cloud Ride - Cloud Ride consists of four, ten minute relaxations inspired by Enid Blyton's Wishing Chair series.  This & other products available on Donna's website.

Welcome to Music

Led by Susie Davies-Splitter & Phil Splitter, Welcome to Music offers award winning original and exciting education resources for teachers and students alike.

From music workshops to music classes, concerts, seminars and conferences and shows.

Music resources for teachers - a comprehensive range of music resources for primary/elementary teachers.

Preschool music programs - a full range of original and exciting preschool music activities, programs and early childhood music lessons.

Professional development for music teachers - professional musical development and music education. all the tools Music teachers need to make sure that teaching children music is effective and fun!

Music PLAYshops - a music PLAYshop at your school. Workshops, seminars and conferences for kindergartens and primary schools all around Australia - make learning music fun for children and teachers.

Singing, Piano and Guitar lessons - Singing, piano and guitar lessons in South East Melbourne for all ages.  First lesson FREE!