More Able Than Dis: Accessible Music

United Sound matches participating music programs and students with disabilities in efforts to play musical instruments and perform together.

Source for maintenance, repair, and modifications on wind instruments of all descriptions.

The mission of the UNK One-Handed Woodwinds Program is to make one-handed woodwind instruments available to permanently disabled individuals.

This site is devoted to music and movement education, and helping people with limb differences develop adaptive instrument techniques.

Recording artists and music professionals with disabilities

providing access to adapted music education programs for the special needs community. Canada

Drake Music is a national arts charity working across the UK. We are a National Portfolio Organisation for Arts Council England and are also funded through Youth Music. We have been pioneering the use of assistive music technology to make music accessible for over 20 years.

Martin Visser's one-handed flute is the embodiment of the philosophy that the instrument should fit the player.

This UK-based organization offers support in locating, buying, and paying for adaptive instruments.

Advice and support to people with hemiplegia.

A UK-based charity pioneering the development and adaptation of musical instruments for those who are physically disabled.

Handmade clarinets to the highest specification. Unique keywork to enable one handed playing.

A charity supporting children with a range of upper limb deficiencies. They also offer a bursary scheme to members to contribute towards instrument adaptions, gadgets and specialist equipment or training to develop talent and promise in children with upper limb deficiencies.

A charity that helps disabled people achieve independence and a better quality of life by designing and making bespoke equipment for their individual needs. Remap is a charity and all equipment is provided free of charge.

Music therapy has been around for many years and is recognized as a tool for helping people with emotional and behavioral issues such as depression or ADHD. While the usual instruments used include the drums, cymbals and other instruments that do not require too much instruction, the guitar is also being used as an option. Learning to play guitar requires some finger dexterity and this comes with limitations as to who may learn to play guitar - Robo-Tar has taken this obstacle out of the equation. Allowing people with disabilities to handle a guitar is a start towards giving them new hope and opportunities.

Hi! Welcome to the Headbangers Home Page! We're a band made up of students from Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton, Massachusetts. We play an eclectic blend of Rock, Jazz, Pop, Reggae and Classical music.

Because all of the members of the band have disabilities we don't play using traditional musical instruments. Instead, we use a variety of adaptive computer input devices as a way to control a music synthesizer. Many of us use head switches to trigger musical events (thus our name "Headbangers"), but we also use a variety of other devices as well (see the photos below). Our main software program, Super Switch Ensemble, was written by our teacher, Jon Adams.