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This was a gift to my grandson. He is still pretty young to do all that can be done with this Leapster 2. But I have been told that he loves it.

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My daughter LOVES her Leapster 2. She has had it for two years, since she was 1 1/2. She loves her game so much that keeping batteries ( and Im sure most of you know you have to use good quality batteries) in the system was fleeting. She would go through a set of 4 in 1 day. I am so thankful they made this charger and I am so happy with it. I keep the battery pack full just in case we go out on a long trip, but the charger is perfect for at home. A must buy if your child has a Leapster 2 and loves it!

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I have the actual book of this story, and then my friend gave me this. Same story, only this one doesn't make as much sense since it is fitting the story into songs. I wasn't too thrilled (it seems annoying), but my daughter loves it so much I'm glad I kept it. She's had it for more than a year now (she's now 3 yo) and she still loves it (the book itself has long since been passed up). She can try and sing the songs now and that is cute. My son is now starting to like it too. I'm getting it for my niece who is turning 1.

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As a classroom teacher, the Brilliant Minds Math kit has helped my students understand the concepts behind math so much better. Rather than my students reciting numbers in sequential order, they actually understand how is applied. I have worked with many different types of math manipulatives, from number counters, bears and blocks. With this kit, the students learn the differences between ones, tens, hundreds and thousands by using the units, ten bars and cubes. The math kit provided by Brilliant Minds is the best one I have come across yet. I can't say enough about how helpful this kit has been to all of my students.

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I bought this as a backup to public school after we had to transfer my daughter from Montessori. It has been great to reinforce the traditional methods she is being taught in public school. Her little sister, who is 3 years old and in Montessori school, loves doing "homework" with these materials while big sister is doing her homework. Good quality. Very happy with the purchase and will probably be buying the advanced kit soon.

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I bought this String a Farm for my handicapped daughter, not knowing whether she could string the blocks or not, but to my amazement she figured it out immediately! This toy is very easy for her to handle and manuever and she was so pleased with her success! Highly recommend this sturdy toy.

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This toy is terrific for two-year-olds. My daughter loves stringing the animals and other farm related beads. She especially likes the tractor and the chickens. The farm pieces do make quite a noise when dumped off the string, but that doesn't bother us. This toy is durable, colorful, and fun.

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Great toy for stimulating language skills and fine motor skills. Easy for little ones to handle and kids love to string them. Great for theme building. Durable with bright colors.

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My two year old loves this product, I love it because the "needle" is quite long and allows her to (relatively) easily slide the "beads" on. My twelve month old also loves this product! The animals are all smooth, no rough edges, so no safety concerns. You can do so much with this product aside from physical manipulation with the hands, but you can also teach about animals, colors, etc. I highly recommend this product and will be purchasing this product as a birthday gift for other two year olds! Well worth the money!!!!

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I love the great shapes and illustrations on the beads for this stringing toy. I think it is superior to most stringing sets because each bead is different and that can encourage imaginative play. My main issue is that once my daughter learned how to string the beads once (didn't take long), she was done. She has only stringed the beads a total of 5 times in the time we have owned it. Maybe other children enjoy these toys more but it wasn't a huge hit at my house. The bonus was that the beads are large, high quality wood and can be used to act out farm scenes.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program What is an Ultra eBook? The foundation is a traditional children's picture book, with short simple sentences. Now, add the ability to touch various items in the book to hear sound effects. For example, touch a bird and it chirps. This is like the LeapFrog Tag books, though the tablet (LeapPad or LeapPad 2) lacks the charm of a physical book. However, since it is built from the ground up for the tablet, the bird would also have a bit of animation. There are many things to click on, and it is fun to see what everything does. The tablet can also detect tilt, so you may see an egg roll across the screen if you tilt it to the side, or a character lose his balance if you shake it. Additionally, much like DS games, a few pages react to blowing on the microphone. In short, the books feel more alive than ever before in the LeapFrog line.

The Ultra eBooks also add periodic game breaks throughout the story (around 10 total). As always, you can adjust the difficulty for the age of the child. These games are very short and simple, but do add some solid assistance in learning to spell. It is not like a full lesson, so much as it is sneaking a little bit of extra meaning into the experience. This should work well for kids with short attention spans. The learning element is also supplemented with a list of all the words learned, and the ability to record your own reading of the book. The latter is a little clumsy and unintuitive, but it sounds okay when you get it working.

The two stories presented are basic interpretations of Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs. The LeapFrog characters are used, which is great for kids that already know them. The animation style is very charming, somewhere between the LeapFrog DVDs and traditional story book art. There are not many frames of animation, but what is here is impressive. I can see kids falling in love with the stories and going back to them over and over. Music is pretty good quality and not annoying, with computer reproductions of an orchestra. You probably won't be humming them, but they set a nice tone. The narrator does a good job as well, though he reads it a bit straight, considering the material.

My only complaint about the material is that in adding the spelling lessons and cutifying these stories, they also largely lost their primary educational value. These classic fairy tales were strongly rooted in illustrating important life lessons. The moral of these LeapFrog versions? I'm not sure.

Overall, I think that most children will enjoy the Ultra eBook Fairy Tales and learn a little too. The production values are good and the interactive elements add a lot to the experience.

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This Ultra-eBook is certainly preferable to a mere game, since it offers some opportunity to read and learn story pacing. But it suffers from the significant shortcomings that afflict other digital "learning" toys. I wish programmers were required to study educational research carefully before designing these kinds of materials or persuading parents to trust their educational value.

Here's the problem: Sights, sounds, and animations may indeed help lure a child into reading and thus, may get him/her reading sooner. This makes it look like technology has "accelerated" the learning process. But it comes with a trade off. The multimedia experience also trains the brain to follow shorter attention cycles and become dependent on superficial audio/visual cues. Your child may start to recognize new words faster, but will also begin to develop a shorter, more media-dependent attention cycle that staunchly resists the quiet, sustained reading practices that enable much higher levels of thinking and reading later. The "head start" on reading that initially looks so positive may actually turn into attention-deficit types of problems in high school or college. That's because the brain literally becomes addicted to audio/visual stimuli, and thus, averse to quiet reading and less adept at decoding words without the benefit +of pictures and sounds.

The "Fairy Tales" Ultra-eBook is a perfect example of how this impoverishes the deeper reading and learning experience. It contains two fairy tales: "The Three Little Pigs" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," both retold with a frog theme and a more benign plot. In both stories, the reading experience is repeatedly interrupted by "Game Time." I suspect the programmer is influenced by a mid-1990s philosophy of instruction which was meant to be applied to multimedia CDs/DVDs used for training new employees. The prevailing view was that the trainee needed periodic breaks from information in order to organize his/her thoughts and refresh his/her attention. Brief quizzes and games were ideal for that purpose. But that philosophy only applied because the adults were watching CDs/DVDs with a lot of decontextualized and technical information. It is NOT applicable to literature/fiction as it pertains to a child's cognitive development. In a well-told story, the details are not decontextualized, so the information is easier and more enjoyable to process. In fact, a story is far MORE engaging when it is NOT interrupted, assuming that the plot is of sufficient quality to build drama and tension. In other words, if you are telling a good story in the first place, you don't need "breaks" from the information. Instead, you need the story to advance in a delightful, engaging, uninterrupted manner.

With that in mind, the Leap Frog fairy tales are problematic for at least three reasons. First, the periodic interruptions for "Game Time" (which occur three times per story) powerfully undermine the story's ability to build drama. (Just think about how it feels to you when you're interrupted while reading a good book or watching an engaging movie.) Besides breaking the child's concentration, the games interrupt the linear flow/coherence of the story. Neither effect is conducive to developing advanced reading skills or improved concentration. While your child may learn new words and manage to piece the story back together, he/she is losing the most important cognitive benefit of the experience. (You will still be impressed to see him/her learn new vocabulary, but what you won't be able to see is that certain attention-deficit patterns are also being reinforced. Those patterns may not surface in problematic ways until a much later stage of education, when quiet, sustained concentration suddenly becomes vitally important.)

Second, Leap Frog's version of each fairy tale strips away its most essential dramatic components. For example, in the story of the three little frogs (a retelling of "The Three Little Pigs"), the "wolf" is replaced by a friendly dog. The dog appears as a shadowy figure whose identity is concealed until the end of the story, but the classic, tension-building moments in which the wolf demands to be let into each pig's house are conspicuously missing. In Leap Frog's version, the three frogs still build houses from straw, wood, and bricks, but the first two houses simply fall down due to poor structural design (the dog never threatens to "huff and puff"). The original tension of a direct threat to each pig's personal security is replaced, in Leap Frog's version, by the dull fear of shoddy house construction. This ruins the literary quality of the tale and thus, teaches children nothing about the aesthetic quality and plot design of a well told story. Leap Frog throws out centuries of cultural evidence that children feel deeply engaged by the threat of a wolf at the door, and instead caters to the politically correct assumption that fear and conflict are unhealthy topics for children. In truth, fear and conflict are THE essential ingredients of a well-told story--the surest means of engaging a reader's attention and sympathies, as well as provoking personal/ethical reflection.

Third, Leap Frog's revised versions destroys the re-reading value. By making the plot so shallow and devoid of dramatic tension, the "Fairy Tales" eBook actually discourages the kind of close, repeated attention by which a reader learns to extract increasingly mature insights. For example, when the first two frogs run to join their sibling in his brick house, the shadowy dog shows up to reveal his friendly identity. This already-dull turn of events retains none of the original tale's conflict-resolution structure. It also ruins the story's "re-readability". In the original tale, the real threat of a hungry wolf at the door remains compellingly dramatic even on subsequent re-readings (that's why kids love to hear the story told again and again). In Leap Frog's version, once the identity of the shadowy dog is discovered, whatever modest tension was created by concealing his identity is lost for good. After the first read, the child will always know that the shadowy figure is a friend, not a threat at all. No hint of drama or suspense remains. Even very young kids will quickly understand that they're reading a story in which very little of importance happens. Two frogs build shoddy houses that collapse, they run to the third frog's nicer brick house, and then they chat (somewhat irrelevantly) with a friendly dog in a wolf costume who happened to follow them home. The most valuable reading experiences (dramatic tension, sustained concentration, conflict-resolution, AND the take-away lesson) have all been sacrificed for this cutesy retelling. Yet the only reader likely to notice the cutesiness is someone who already knows the original tale, and thus, is AWARE of the "cute" departures from that version (!).

Admittedly, Leap Frog recovers some of each story's re-readability value (albeit marginally) by providing three reading levels of text. While this may get the child to re-read the book several times, it cannot restore the drama/tension lost to the shallow plot. Thus, it will not spur the child too look for the "deep meaning" of the story. In short, there is little here to teach kids that stories can be usefully instructive. Leap Frog's cutesy version probably advertises itself as non-threatening and undramatic to please parents who increasingly tend to think politically, rather than aesthetically or morally, about what makes for a "good" story. But as I tell my college students: The rules of drama are no different for children than for adults. The threat has to be REAL and SUBSTANTIAL or the story will falter. Don't underestimate your child's ability to know the difference.

My goal is not to berate Leap Frog or this particular Ultra-eBook. Leap Frog makes a very fine line of products and the production value of the "Fairy Tales" eBook is undeniably good. But parents need to recognize that "Ultra-eBooks" still have more in common with GAMES than with the cognitively-beneficial activity of reading PRINTED BOOKS. Certainly, kids can learn from this kind of technology, especially basic skills like word-recognition and pronunciation. But what parents don't understand is how much gets lost in the process when digital tools become a replacement for (or serious distraction from) traditional reading. Although digital multimedia tools can help pull your child into basic reading sooner, there is no "short cut" to intellectual growth.

BEWARE the cognitive losses that are also occurring. They can grow into serious obstacles later when your child reaches a more advanced reading level. I am a college English professor who is unusually well read on the subjects of digital technology and cognitive development. I see these problems firsthand in students of the present "digital generation". Regrettably, most educators have embraced digital tools (and marketing rhetoric) in a wholly uncritical way, and have made no real effort to inform the public about what the healthiest educational experiences truly require. To be clear, Leap Frog isn't doing anything wrong, and in my opinion, they make the best children's electronic learning products on the market. But do not make the mistake of believing such products are unequivocally "educational" or entirely harmless. Your child needs to spend as much time as possible on quiet, traditional reading, without multimedia distractions and the interruption of games. As I said in my review of the LeapPad2 tablet, the average teenager now experiences withdrawal-like symptoms (akin to substance abusers) if deprived of access to a screen-equipped digital device (smartphone, laptop, iPad, etc.) for more than 20 minutes. And they spend an average of 9 hours per day using media on screen-equipped devices! They are products of an entire generation of parents who unwittingly allowed them to become addicted to digital multimedia. As a result, their brains were never required to develop the capacity for quiet, sustained attention and nuanced reading that is absolutely indispensable for attaining the highest levels of education and precise thought.

The Leap Frog "Fairy Tales" Ultra-eBook's best features include its charming illustrations, its modest use of animations, its well-paced narration, and its ability to "sound out" words when they are tapped with the stylus. Had those elements been used to accentuate a more traditional version of each fairy tale, without the "Game Time" interruptions, the reading experience might have been truly outstanding. The games aren't bad, but they should be placed at the END of each story, not only to avoid interrupting the child's concentration, but to reinforce the story's vocabulary and to expand on the story's lessons. (I can imagine a wonderful game in which the child must select proper materials to build a house, and then arrange them into a stable structural design. It would assess their comprehension of the story and some of its implicit lessons, while also being fun.)

In short, this is a great add-on for distracting and lightly educating your child, but it is NOT a valid replacement for traditional quiet reading. I gave it three stars overall because despite the high quality of the product, its design is clearly at odds with the high educational expectations that probably prompts most parents to buy it. I suspect the same critique applies to most or all of the Ultra-eBooks.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program We definitely like this! I would have paused about the price, but this included two stories, amazing graphics (it's kind of like an animated movie/story book), and some games. Definitely worth the price, though the cost can add up, so we'll have to pace ourselves in buying others.

When we clicked on the first story, we first got a song about how letters make sounds and sounds make words. It was catchy and fun (and not even annoying to me!).

Then it goes to the story, which has periodic breaks for games. I do agree with Leapfrog that this will help my daughter with phonics and sight words. (Sometimes they say something will, and I think it's a reach. Not this time!) Our little guy who is three likes to watch her play, so he's learning along with her. The difficulty can be adjusted to make it easier or harder; right now, as a new kindergarten student, we have it at the easiest and it's perfectly at the intersection of ability and challenge, so she's learning without getting frustrated. (She currently knows sounds of each letter and can identify a few basic words.)

The stories were definitely changed from the originals. They are the Leapfrog re-tellings, and for example The Three Little Frogs story has each frog build a house and then a wolf wants to play after they've built their houses. They don't let him in ("not by the green of my little frog skin"), but the wolf doesn't huff and puff. Instead, the inferior materials of some of the homes just fall apart when the frogs jump. At the end, the story is softened from the original by having the "wolf" actually just be their dog whose shadow looked like a scary wolf. I liked the new stories, and I think it could be a good critical thinking skills exercise for kids to compare and contrast the original story with this one.

I do wish the game times were separate from the story. Each game time was fun for our daughter (like one with spelling where she got to chose different vowels to complete a word and then the game read the new word to her and taught her a bit about phonics sounds in the process), but each time felt like an interruption to the story itself. My daughter didn't mind, but it still felt disjointed, and I don't think she retained as much of the story. (For example, she had difficulty re-telling it.) I think as she plays with it again and again it will be less distracting, so I don't think this is a major flaw.

Overall, I've been impressed with our Leappad experiences, and this ultra e-book is no exception.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is an excellent product for young readers and children learning to read. It combines a traditional illustrated storybook with interactivity and games. Two fairy tales are included: Three Little Frogs and Leap and the Beanstalk. They've both been Leap-ified so the main characters are frogs.

Parents can choose the reading level (or the child can choose for him/herself). Level 1 is for the youngest readers and 3 for older readers. In increasing complexity, for example, the same sentence:

1: The frogs want a home.

2: The frogs want a new place to live.

3: The frogs want to choose a new place to live.

Tapping the + icon pulls up a menu. Here, the child can change the reading level, navigate to a different page, record his/her voice to read along, and access the games. Left and right arrow icons change the page. A book icon re-reads the entire sentence. I find these icons a bit too small and perhaps not so intuitive to younger children. They should be large and easy to tap with a finger.

There's plenty to do. The characters are all animated ((akin to Flash animation), and some pages have more elaborate animation than others. The backgrounds look like watercolor artwork. Tapping on parts of the screen causes different animation effects to play, or hidden items to pop out. Spoken instructions tell you to shake the LeapPad to interact with the story's characters (like waking someone up or shake a cowbell). In the beanstalk story, you can use the stylus to shake some salt and pepper onto a pot of soup. Badges are sometimes awarded for uncovering hidden letters. All these encourage exploration.

There is no way to toggle between repeating whole words and individual letters. Swiping across a word quickly with the stylus repeats the whole word. Swiping slowly or clicking on letters sounds out individual letters or phonic groups (ea, ch). There is some inconsistency here. A few words are repeated whole (want, the) and the rest are broken into phonetic parts (f-r-o-g-s).

Another potentially annoying feature is the interruption of phonics games every 5 or 6 pages. The child can cancel the game, but it disrupts the reading experience. Overall, this is a very high quality product and an excellent value. There's a lot for your child to do and explore for the money.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program My 6 year-old has about 15 games and apps for her LeapPad, and this one is a favorite of both of ours. The Fairy Tales eBook contains two stories, Leapfrog versions of The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk, and has the same basic format as the other Ultra eBooks we own... full-color, interactive, narrated story pages, interspersed with educational mini-games. Leapfrog's versions of the fairy tales are fairly far-removed from the originals, very inoffensive and mild. Though they definitely aren't my favorite retellings, they're not bad stories, and I think my 6 year-old who knows the original Grimm versions inside and out actually enjoys spotting and telling me about the differences between the "real" stories and the Leapfrog ones.

Anyway, the thing that sets this eBook above the others we own are the learning games... they are much more interesting and far more educational than the others we've tried, as well as being perfectly targeted for the true beginning reader. My favorite activity is one where your child is given an incomplete sentence and asked to drag and drop the missing word into the appropriate spot... it is perfect for learning Kindergarten sight words! Overall, this is one of the better LeapPad learning tools out there and very definitely recommended for Kindergarten-level readers.

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It was great fun to put together, but the instructions are humorously opaque.

They were either written by a first year English student from China, or a translation program. They made me laugh a lot!

Also, the instructions cannot be followed as-is, since the balls won't roll if you do. However, part of the fun is trying to figure out how to modify them in order to get it working.

My final product is mostly the same, but there are some serious changes I made.

All that just adds to the pride of accomplishment when finally done.

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It really is okay if you like doing stuff without instructions. They were translated into english by... someone who can't speak english. You kind of NEED the instructions for something like this, so if you really want it be prepared to ignore the gibberish and try to figure out how to build it using the pictures/diagrams only.

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The assembly time (7-8 hours) is based on a realistic calculation it is not easy to make every loop functioning but the result is well worth the time!

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My son really didn't even get to play with this because the parts kept breaking when he tried to put them together. He is 11 and pretty good building things like this, he has had several marble coasters before and had a lot of fun with them. I need to find out if I can return this and get my money back. Total waste.

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As I have become older, I am rusty on my world locations. This globe is handy to keep by my computer to refer to when I don't know the area I am researching or reading about. It is very study and easy to locate places. It is for older people too.

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I know that language is best learned young.... and that all new moms want to give their kids an edge in life (as well as keep them busy) so I've bought this as a gift for a number of friends and the gift has been met with great response. More important however is the kids seem to love it. One of my friends has reported that her daughter (18 months) is entranced by it and has started to repeat the words and phrases. I wish these had been around when my kids were young. Anyway, highly recommended as a gift or for your own little ones.

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I was looking for something for my 2 year old. She repeats she loves the characters and I'm learning too.

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My children enjoy this game. Because they are always learning when they play it, I do not mind how long they play it. I bought it for my son who needed to practice multiplication for his grade. I watched my 5yr old son watch intently my older son playing this game. My 5yr old has learned some of his timestable. This game is able to sustain my very active 5yr old for hours at a time. I hope to find a similar one for addition and subtraction.

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We had the free demo version for 2 days and my two kids are begging to play. No joke.

My 4th grader was in tears last year because of the timed tests at school (and hated doing them). So this past summer, I forced them to do flash cards, and got lots of resistance. The kids didn't WANT to learn their times tables and were determined to prove to me that they couldn't. (Maybe other kids aren't this stubborn / uncooperative.) But, the truth is, I can sympathize I hated learning my times tables too.

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(Also, based on my training in pedagogy, the method seems sound: practice a bit, rest a bit, practice a bit more in several different ways, review.) I'm buying the upgrade version to see if we can get them through all the levels.

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This online math game has been a huge help with my children remembering their math facts. In fact today my 4th grader came home with a timed multiplication test where he finished all the problems and scored 100%. I know for a fact his use of Timez Attack was a huge help to his mathematical success. My 1st, 3rd, and 6th grader are also excelling in math. Best decision I made to purchase the Deluxe version. Great product where you actually see the results.

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Back when my daghters were young, I used this product in it's beta stages because they struggled with multiplication so much. So now that my youngest child is in third grade, and loves to game, I thought why not give it another shot. He LOVED it. I can't believe the changes that I have seen. They have come a very very long way from the Beta stages of the game. It helps him remember what he is learning which is beyond awesome. And it put's it into a fun way to learn!

Easy to download, free option available, but we went for the deluxe so he can mix things up. Love the addition that you can change your character from male to female (not an option in the beta). Keep up the wonderful work, highly recommend for anyone who wants to help their child learn multiplication/division/addition/subtraction!

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A fun easy way to learn your times tables when you like computer games. You can play and learn at the same time.

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I own a 99.00 hohner melodica and this ST32 is still comparable! The Schoenhut is a toy, this Hohner st32 is a serious instrument, and you CANNOT beat the price!

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The Schoenhut Melodica is the cheapest 37-key Melodica that you can buy. The key action is excellent and the sound is sweet. It comes with a mouthpiece and a tube for playing it horizontally.

Most melodica players purchase either the more popular 37/36-key or the less popular 32-key melodicas. All melodicas are made out of plastic

The key range is from F2 to F5 (Middle C = C3). This is a three octave range and the Schoenhut Melodica is probably one of the largest sized Melodica made. It is 20" x 5" x 3" in size, the same as the Hohner ST-32 melodica.

It is sold as a toy and this keeps the price down but the Schoenhut Melodica is a real musical instrument. It is made in China for the Schoenhut company but the quality of this melodica is high. The Schoenhut Melodica is suppose to be one of the better melodica's mamufactured. Hohner melodicas are also nice sounding, great quality melodicas but they cost more and the Schoenhut Melodica is the best quality best melodica that you can buy for the money.

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My husband is a pianist and finds this melodica instrument a useful alternative to practicing tunes or ear training when he's waiting in the car.

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I bought this melodica after reading reviews for it and the Hohner 32-key Student melodica. I chose this one because it was supposed to have fewer durability issues and it has a larger range. The melodica comes with a very nice semi-rigid case (much better than padded for gigging use) and both the 'straw' and mouthpiece are well made, though I doubt I will often use the mouthpiece because of the melodica's size.

The keyboard itself is well made, the keys have a nice feel and it is easy to tell when they are engaged. The only issue with the keyboard is that the white keys for the first octave make a slight scraping noise when depressed, it can't be heard while casually playing, but it could be a problem with close miking (though it may go away with use). As others have mentioned the keys are not perfectly level with each other, but this is a purely cosmetic issue and does not affect the feel.

The melodica sounds very good for its price, but don't expect it to sound like a $150+ Hohner. There are no obvious pitch issues, though I have not checked with a tuner. The top F key takes significantly more air to sound than the E below it, but it is usable if you compensate for it.

The build quality is excellent. It is made from a nice durable plastic and has a very nice heft to it. The only issue I can foresee is that the nylon hand strap on the bottom could be pulled out of place if handled too roughly, but it should be easy to get back into position.

Overall I am very happy with this melodica. Its quality surpasses its price tag and I believe that I will be using it for a long time. This instrument is well suited for education, messing around, and performance.

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I have had the Schoenhut for two months now so I'd have a little keyboard to work with during the winter in Mexico. Two conclusions I've come to at this point: (1) The melodica is a terrific little instrument, especially for someone with keyboard experience. I'm taking it more seriously than I expected. (2) I'm ready to move up! After some research, I ordered the Suzuki Pro-37v2; I also considered the Hammond (Suzuki) 44 and the wooden Mylodica. These instruments cost about ten times what the Schoenhut does, but I expect that any one of them (and maybe some cheaper alternatives as well) can fulfill the promise that the Schoenhut demonstrates but cannot fulfill. The Pro-37v2 and the Mylodica are praised for their warm and even tones.

The sound and key action on the lower half of my Schoenhut are quite good. Beyond that the tone gets increasingly thinner and edgier, and key action is uneven. There are a couple of keys for which you have to blow harder to get a clear and even sound, which disrupts what you're trying to do with the rest of the keyboard. I'm enjoying my Schoenhut, but I'll gift it to the lawn boy before I head home.

Google around at the moment and you might find the Schoenhut for $27, a truly remarkable bargain. But it's a very good value at $42.