We've been attending classes at the Orff Institute for three days now. We're in two classes in the mornings, each for 90 minutes, with a break in between. There are three teachers here that we see, each of them a master teacher. We're impressed by them all, Insuk, Andrea, Reinhold, Werner, Ari and Lenka, from Czechoslovakia, each of them presenting something different, but we can see that there are basic ideas that they hope to give us. We've been inspired by lots of new ideas, one of which is the concept of rhythm blocks, using certain patterns of body percussion for various meters. Reinhold used some great little drums the other day, they're hand made, called "yambu." They sound like small djembe. Folk dance with Andrea is great, but hot! We did some singing the
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