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Sabreen, aware of the scarcity of music instruments
within school classrooms in the Palestinian territories,
has worked to develop alternatives to the few available
on the market.
Primarily, the project includes making available simple
musical instruments that are affordable and applicable
to music requirements of the community at large. If
more cost effective instruments can be produced, these
can either be made directly for the school classrooms,
or, if simple enough, even made by the students themselves.
Many simple instruments can be constructed out of ordinary
materials, and quickly produced to give a number of
sounds that can be applied to music instruction in the
classroom. It is hoped that such small instruments could
be packaged as art of a musical kit for children and
teachers in schools.
Additionally, Sabreen has sought to develop and
produce more cost effective high quality instruments
for use by professionals. It has enlisted the support
and technical assistance of outside craftspeople to
conduct research on the theory and practice in instrument
design.
Invited by Sabreen, Simon Watt, an English economist
and craftsman, conducted a research on Oud making and
initiated a pilot Oud-making workshop. Many different
types of wood and various designs were experimented
with so as to find a cost-effective yet quality-sounding,
instrument for musicians, locally and abroad.
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