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‘Oh GOSH, there’s a Skoog loose in the Hospital’ Great Ormond Street Hospital wins innovative musical invention from the University of Edinburgh. Young patients at the renowned children’s hospital are about to get to grips with the viola-clari-banjo-flugelhorn-guitar-drum. Or the Skoog for short. (Skoog video here: http://www.skoogmusic.com/learn/demo/SkoogDoc) Invented at the University of Edinburgh the Skoog [...]

Great little video showing Skoog being used with Trabasack .  Here the Skoog player is exploring the midi tom instrument on the Skoog.   The trabasack has had a real positive impact for this pupil in terms of accessing the Skoog and giving him more independence when using the Skoog. Thanks to Duncan Edwards fro [...]

Special Needs Music Case studies

Case studies now available for the Skoog being used in Special Needs Music – Autism, Global delay, Visual Impairment, Down’s Syndrome

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Skoog scores in action

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Have been searching around the web for interesting things and was a bit perplexed that we didn’t pop up in searches for ‘new musical instrument’.  As that is exactly what the Skoog is, I thought I had better blog about it to try and get us noticed by people who are interested in finding out [...]

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Skoogmusic Ltd was featured in the Times, the Scotsman and the Financial times this month.  The main topic in the articles was the great news about the University of Edinburgh’s spin out success this year.  In all three articles the Skoog team gets a special mention and in the Scotsman the article carried a large [...]

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Serious potential: The Skoog receives 5-star rating in Young and Able Magazine