Musical Instruments for Kids

[Easy-X]

Given that even though the kids going back to school I think standards of education might slip for a while I'm going to attempt to teach some music

I bought an ocarina a while back and I was quite surprised how fiddly the things are! (BTW I don't mean those pointless 4-hole efforts.)

Anyhoo, I'm looking for recommendations for 6+ years. I've always had an irrational dislike of things you can't get an octave out of so I'm a bit out of touch with the value of something like a tin whistle. Recorder seems another obvious choice but terrible music teachers in my childhood have poisoned the things.

Kicking about I have ukuleles and a Venova but they might be a bit advanced? My midi keyboard have way too many distracting buttons. I even considered programming something simple into my Eigenharp - bit of an oxymoron

So, get over my own prejudices or are there other instruments I should consider?
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[Ste]

Kazoos.

[chickenstrip]

Mandolin. Small, narrow neck, only 4 (pairs) of strings, standard tuning is like open G on guitar, really easy to bar across for major chords and making other chords easy.
Only downside, possibly, is fingering pairs of strings for little fingers, but might be ok?
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[chickenstrip]

[ThunderGuts]

Kids pick up stuff so quickly; I think ukes are good because they're a friendly size/shape, don't need much finger strength to fret and you can pick them up pretty cheaply (so less tears when they get dropped/bashed into a table etc.).

Funnily enough I actually played my tin whistle last night for the first time in years . . . had to extract the spider and web/food store from inside of it first though; storing it in the garage clearly has pitfalls.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Since you already have ukes, how about open tuning them?

Or Drums. Kids like drums.
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[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

You could try a rusty trombone.
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[ThunderGuts]

Tin whistles are ace; get a basic book or search online as although the obvious scale is easy enough, fingering gets weird the higher you go. You also have to blow quite hard for it to work properly and subsequently can make a lot of noise.
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[MCN]

Many a marvellous evening weve spent at the bcf bbq campfire singing campfire songs accompanied by Chickenstrip on his Tambourell and Ste on Kazoo.
When muzik meant something.
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[stinkwheel]

[ThunderGuts]

Tin whistle, uke and a mandolin . . . set up a folk band.
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[Howling Terror]

Korg volcas.
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Teenage Engineering pocket operators.
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Be cooler than all the other kids...instruments that can wreck a massive PA system with ease.
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[Easy-X]

[chickenstrip]

[Poseidon]

Just as lockdown was approaching, I sensed homeschooling was afoot. Bought a digital piano and signed up to simply piano. They spend a minimum of 30min (typically upwards of an hour each) a day doing piano practice and 3 months on their progress has been staggering.

They've gotten so good, if they're playing a song I know on the guitar, I'll pull up a chair and jam along.

We've tried them on recorders, half size guitars, trumpet and a couple of others, but they didn't take to it. I don't know if it's because they're learning songs from the off, or that its app based or what, but they love learning the piano and from using the app, they can actually play using sheet music too.
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[MCN]

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[stinkwheel]

Melodion?
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[Howling Terror]

[Islander]

[Islander]

Ukeleles are cheap and fun to play. Theres the traditional recorder or as already suggested, a tin whistle.