NAMM 2025 Best Tools for Schools

NAMM 2025 Best Tools for Schools

WindStars Pre-Band Curriculum and NUVO instruments awarded Best Tools for Schools at NAMM 2025

The entire NUVO team is thrilled to learn WindStars Pre-Band curriculum and NUVO instruments were awarded Best Tools for Schools at NAMM 2025. This is a testament that the combination of our range of Pre-Band instruments and the WindStars curriculum is the perfect tool for getting young kids into playing in band and better prepare them to later transition to beginning band.  It is our hope that WindStars and NUVO instruments can continue to positively impact young lives by kickstarting their musical journey.

Below is an excerpt from SBO Magazine’s April issue:

“Many years ago, kids started band in 4th grade. Now that many begin in 6th grade, these innovative brass and woodwind “bridge instruments” can help elementary students (ages 4-12) develop real instrumental skills with smaller durable and waterproof instruments that build actual embouchures and fingering skills. Don’t let the various color options fool you – these are not toys. They are real instruments with mouthpieces to transition students into traditional band instruments.”

Compact Drum Set for the Classroom

NUVO is also extremely excited to share that a new product also received the Best Tools for Schools award – the NUVO ZIP-KIT!

The ZIP-KIT is a portable drum set designed for the classrooms. It is the brainchild of Dave Wish, founder of Music Will, a charitable foundation that provides free music lessons and instruments. Dave spent years developing the concept and after he met with the NUVO team at the 2024 NAMM Show, the ZIP-KIT becomes a reality.

“Our partners at MusicWill introduced us to the ZIP-KIT. If you have lots of young percussionists who want to play drumset, how can you afford to accommodate them (and stand the noise!!)? The ZIP-KIT packs up into a small carrying case. It includes quiet versions of a snare, tom-toms, cymbals, bass drum, hi-hat, and a throne perfect for home practice or a busy classroom. It can be sized for 4-5 year olds or for adults! We heard several pro drummers sit down and wail on this (but quietly!!).”

You can read more about the ZIP-KIT on Music Will’s website.

This ZIP-KIT will be launched as a new brand and will have its own website very soon. This marks the third brand under the Nuvo Instrumental umbrella, with NUVO in Pre-Band, NUVOBand in beginning band – which we have launched this year, and finally, the ZIP-KIT in percussion.

We are proud and grateful for the Best Tools for Schools awards our products have received. They remind us of why we do what we do. It is our genuine hope that kids of all ages and backgrounds will be able to experience the joy of making music, and they can thoroughly enjoy this journey when we equip them with the right gear.

 

Read the full article on SBO website: https://sboplus.net/best-tools-for-schools-from-namm-2025/

WindStars Workshop at VanderCook

WindStars Workshop at VanderCook

VanderCook College of Music

August 3-4, 2024

Chicago, IL USA


Join us for a weekend workshop at VanderCook College of Music

Receive 1 graduate credit!

What Can I Expect?

Expect to have FUN with hands-on learning through active participation! Instruments will be provided for use during the weekend workshop. We will move, sing, play, and create while designing activities to address all learning styles.

Register Today!

Suitable for upper elementary music educators (general or beginning band)

Presented by Brittany Bauman
Author of the award-winning WindStars pre-band curriculum

 


WindStars launches “Play Along” lessons online

WindStars launches “Play Along” lessons online

In view of the recent situation with COVID-19 and school closures, WindStars launches free “Play Along” online lessons to offer parents a virtual music class for their children. The lessons are based on the WindStars music curriculum, an award-winning, pre-band music program with books. It is a simple, effective, and affordable way for elementary school kids to experience the joy of playing music together. The lessons start in WindStars 1,”Sound Before Sight” and will progress through the other two levels.

WindStars uses Nuvo instruments that are inexpensive, lightweight, durable and easy to maintain. The instruments are musically authentic and are designed to teach skills that help children quickly transfer to beginning band instruments when they are ready. Nuvo instruments are 100% waterproof so they can be easily sanitized in hot soapy water.

Click here to watch WIndStars Play Along lessons.

Be sure to subscribe to the WindStars Education YouTube channel and get notified as soon as new lessons are released.

Nuvo WindStars won the Best in Show at the 2019 NAMM Show

Nuvo WindStars won the Best in Show at the 2019 NAMM Show

At Winter NAMM 2019, we were thrilled and honored to have Windstars winning the Best in Show award. It was selected by George Quinlin of Quinlin & Fabish, Illinois.

“Nuvo has developed a line of pre-band instruments, and they perform much like traditional band instruments. They require a certain amount of air to get them to play, and it’s not designed to replace what’s already happening to recruit kids into music programs. And it’s not designed to replace traditional flutes and clarinets and brass instruments, either. It’s really something that’s totally new and in-between. It has a purpose simply to get kids excited about playing wind instruments.”

Music Inc. Magazine’s article on Best in Show highlights:  http://www.musicincmag.com/News/2019/013119/013119_BIS.html

Full award ceremony available on NAMM’s website. Skip to 1:04:40 to watch Nuvo WindStars addressed by George Quinlin: https://www.namm.org/nammu/best-show-6

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