Thank you for visiting this page, we would love to share with you some of the key benefits of choosing from our range of educational favourites popular with teachers, schools and music hubs.

Most of our team have enjoyed musical upbringings, and we appreciate the importance of suitable, reliable instruments, equipment and resources at every stage of the learning journey. As our distribution range has expanded over time, it comes as no surprise that we have been drawn towards products with outstanding value and unique selling points in the field of music education.

With The National Plan for Music Education, we have a once in a generation opportunity to support schools and music hubs in stocking their storerooms with products that we know will inspire and excite many generations of developing musicians. Whether it’s the excitement of getting to grips with single reed woodwind via the Nuvo Dood and jSax, hearing a 30-strong ukulele rendition of When I’m Cleaning Windows or hammering out an earth-shaking timpani solo on a fine set of Majestic timps, Frederick Hyde can advise and guide you towards the products your hubs and teachers will love.

Our experience as both a manufacturer and a distributor of musical instruments makes us ideally suited to offering specialist, tailored advice so please do pick up the phone or send us a message that starts with “This might be an odd question, but…”. We excel at these enquiries!

We offer top dealer terms for listing our products online, with no stocking commitments. Please ask for full web assets!

To find out more about our extensive range of brands and products that focus on music education, please get in touch today on sales@frederickhyde.com and one of us will be straight back to you.

Tom Groves – Commercial Director

Scarlett May – Dealer Sales Manager

By no means everything is made in the UK but where possible and practical we will manufacture in our workshops in Saddington Leicestershire. At present UK made products include all our Wak-a-tubes sets and classroom packs, and our extensive range of mallets and beaters. Finally we also make our famous Musisca Castor Glide digital piano movers in our Leicestershire workshops.

We first brought our Slap Djembes to the market in 2020 and it didn’t take long for teachers and schools to start using them, the interactive nature of learning djembe drumming is ideal in music education for youngsters and a great therapeutic activity.

With the addition of the World Slap Djembe series of instruments in summer 2024, the already hugely popular series of instruments is set to step up once again and find further favour in music classrooms everywhere!

Andy Gleadhill’s Slap Djembe, a guide to playing and studying drum rhythms from around the world is an excellent introduction to playing and teaching the djembe. It introduces and uses our revolutionary and accessible notation, which can be used with any drum but works especially well with Slap Djembes where the Bass, Tone, and Slap are displayed on the heads. Free interactive audio and video supporting material is provided.

A structured 10 week lesson plan developed for KS2 & KS3 can be applied to any tune in the book.

The mission is to enable kids from all walks in life to enjoy the power of music making, and hundreds of thousands of kids are now achieving that aim. We are hugely proud to have been Nuvo's official UK and Ireland distributor since its inception. Nuvo create instruments that are:

• Suitable - lightweight, and easy to handle
• Playable from the box without the need to make any adjustments.
• Tuneful - Designed to make note production easy for beginners without compromise.
• Durable - Able to withstand extreme use making them particularly suited to the classroom.
• Personal - Providing a choice of colours and styles.
• Practical - Easy to carry around, assemble and clean. The materials used are 100% washable in warm soapy water, and are easily maintained with little expertise or skill.
• Accessible - Affordable for school programs and full class teaching at all levels.

• Nuvo instruments play straight out of the box – no preparation is required.
• All instruments are totally washable in the bath with soapy water.
• No technical expertise required, if a key is lost or breaks, we supply a replacement, and you can pop it on in seconds.
• Silicon pads are pivoted, always fit, and never leak.

A brilliant method of learning for groups or individuals, WindStars is a book-based program with supplemental materials available online (instructional videos, audio backing tracks, and printable PDFs).

Level 1 - designed for ages 5-9 with an emphasis on Sound before Sight – for Dood and Toot instruments.

Level 2 - designed for ages 6-10 with an emphasis on transitioning to notation – for jSax, jFlute, jHorn and Clarineo instruments.

Level 3 - designed for ages 7-10 emphasizing pre-band ensemble playing.

The Windstars publications provide effective lesson plans to accompany the Nuvo range and assist with WCET. Read all about it here and see previews of the books also.

Nuvo Band – the next level available now!

Find out more about the Bb student clarinet and student concert flute now.

Nuvo instruments are available exclusively from Frederick Hyde to the UK music trade, get in touch and we can send you a data pack to upload the products to your site today.