As students of music will doubtless agree, music theory can be a bit, well, dry. Its certainly not as memorable or interesting as getting to grips with an actual instrument, but it is rewarding. Orange Music Educations take on the interactive white board is a little different to examples weve seen from the likes of LG and Smart Technologies. For one thing, the wall-mountable, height-adjustable Musicboard has an in-display physical piano keyboard to the top with 61 weighted keys and four different instrument sounds to choose from. This allows teachers to demonstrate hand positions and note locations. Theres a large digital tuner for voice or acoustic instruments to the top right, under which is a box for class notes. The rest of the display is dominated by three staves. The current key is displayed to the left of each staff and music notation can be transposed across treble, alto, tenor and bass clefs. A built-in metronome can be programmed and activated to help keep time. Patented note-detecting wands allow teachers to point to notes written on the three available staves with a marker pen and have them played through the Musicboards stereo speakers to the class. This means that students can learn major and minor scales, chords, harmonies and short compositions by reading the notation and hearing what the music is supposed to sound like all in one place. Up to three wireless wands can be used simultaneously across all three staves.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:17:27 +0000