Updated 27th November 2018
Stocking fillers are great for adding variety to your Christmas gifts, the smaller lower cost items allow you to be creative and gift items you know your recipient will use and/or enjoy playing.
Below are my top picks for stocking fillers this year…
For the younger member of the family, the below products are great for ages 3+ exploring music. Bright colours, robust and affordable with a range of sounds to accentuate the sensory learning. The
reflective tambourine is perfect for letting children be inquisitive and explore new visuals, sound and touch.
This small but perfectly formed hand bell features 3 well placed bells on a blue handle, great for shaking! Jingle your hand bell to replicate the noise of Santa’s sleigh, you never know he might deliver your presents first. This range of hand bells from A-Star is also available with
5 or
9 wood handled bells. If you would rather have a wrist bell secured to your child’s hand,
I’d recommend the plastic wrist bells from A-Star.
Tap, swirl from side to side and hit with a flat hand will give you variations in tone and sounds. Explore timbre whilst recreating a tranquil sound. With high quality, a good grip and lots of sound, it makes a great stocking filler for this Christmas.
Bright, traditional, robust and fun for all ages this Christmas. A gift which can get all the family enjoying music. Featuring primary colours and a length of 22cm, this pair of maracas is a stand out percussion instrument. Do you have a smaller musician in the family?
The baby maracas from Early Years are suitable for ages 3 months and upward.
The polarity switching system in the sturdily constructed FS1 non-latching footswitch, it is suitable for use with contemporary keyboards, drum machines, guitar amps and home recording equipment. Simply press the pedal for as long as you need it active then release.
You can never ever have too many guitar straps. If you have a guitarist within your friends and family, a guitar strap makes a great stocking filler.
It will add to their ever-growing range of guitar accessories and will make a present you can rest assured they will use. It’s an essential.
Bright, colourful, material, leather or XL. There is a guitar strap to suit everybody all at affordable costs and the essential to securely playing the guitar.
A tuner is something every guitarist needs in order to tune their guitar. Some tuners work better than others, that’s why you’ll find most guitarist have a range of tuners to choose from. I’d recommend the
Korg Pitchclip Clip-On Tuner and the
Rocket Clip On Tuner.
All guitars or electric instruments will require use of an instrument cable to attach their instrument to an amplifier. Therefore, the cables below are handy musical Christmas gifts essential for producing a loud sound. An instrument cable
I’d recommend is the Rocket Cable.
Let your musical friend or family member show off their instrument. It also makes for great impromptu practising a music sessions. See the stands below:
Clarinet |
Saxophone |
Flute |
Oboe |
Piccolo
The Recorder Package
Create a woodwind gift with a recorder of your choice and the
recorder from the beginning book. The book takes you through learning new notes, note ranges and play music from the sheet. The recorder I’d recommend from
Yamaha is the YR24BUK and from A-Star
, I’d recommend the range here.
This keeps the valves on most brass instruments lubricated and in top condition at all times. An essential for a brass player and they’ll get through quite a lot of valve oil! It’s also amazing how many valve oils they’ll lose (Don’t worry, they’ll find them around the house in a months’ time…).
Denis Wick |
Vincent Bach |
Rocket
These care kits are ideal for ensuring they’ll have everything they need to maintain their brass instrument. The care kits include all the oils, creams and brushes needed, not to mention some include a care kit tracker and pencil.
A full care kit for the trombone. It Includes everything they’ll need for creating the perfect glide for their slide! The Trombone Cream provides a butter smooth, silent slide action day in and day out. The Pocket Sized Fine Mist Sprayer goes everywhere with them.
It will not leak and provides a good water coverage everytime. Superslick's Silicone Plus is a slide additive to be used with Superslick Cream. Just a drop on each stocking enhances cream action and endurance. All round, this is a must have for the Trombone player!
Rosin
No string player can ever have too much rosin, you run out and that’s it no more playing for you until you get some more! Therefore, Rosin makes for a good stocking filler, each stringed instrument requires different Rosin. Click on the instrument to see which Rosin we’d recommend.
Violin |
Viola |
Cello |
Double Bass
Tuners
Very similar to rosin, it’s an essential. There’s no point playing a stringed instrument that isn’t in tune, it will sound horrendous!
Here’s the tuner I’d recommend.
Because every Christmas should be filled with love, laughter, music and an awful lot of festive food! Mix this with a karaoke microphone suitable for all ages in a
sleek black or
sophisticated rose gold. With Bluetooth connectivity, a micro SD card slot and suitable for plugging in some headphones. It’s an all-round singing machine, in my opinion, every family should have.
Guitar Straps
Tuner
Instrument Cables
Instrument Stands
Valve Oil
Cleaning Kit
Slide Kit
