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The instruments Canadian music teachers order most, and reorder most.

What ends up here is decided by what schools actually buy rather than by what we would like to promote, which makes it a reasonable shortlist for anyone building or restocking a room from nothing.

Recorders lead it, with AULOS and EMUS sopranos in both fingering systems. THE CLASSIC ukuleles follow, in soprano, concert, tenor and baritone. On the Orff side, SUZUKI glockenspiels and EMUS bell sets are the pieces that most often go into a first order.

The small percussion here is the group of instruments a general music program runs through fastest: rhythm sticks in plain and fluted pairs, claves, castanets, guiros, triangles and shakers, all of which get bought in quantity and replaced regularly.

If you are equipping a room for the first time, working from this list and then filling the gaps by category is usually faster than working through the full catalogue.