| 38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:  Good Introduction to Instruments, Not Perfect, By Boy Mom (Bremerton, WA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Baby Einstein - Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments (DVD) To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed in the DVD. I have been waiting for it to be released, and my expectations were very high. All in all though, I do have to admit that it is a good introduction to musical instruments for small children. My son is 19 months old. He definitely enjoyed the video, and I think it will be beneficial for him as well. I'll list what I feel are the positive and negative aspects about the video below.Good Things: *Tons of real footage of children and adults playing instruments solo, in small groups, and in full orchestras. Scenes of marching bands were included too which is nice. *The video was broken out logically into all of the major sections: Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, and Percussion. The piano & guitar were introduced together at the end. Both the String and Percussion section included all of the major instruments one might think of. Though, there are so many different percussion instruments that a... Read more 56 of 61 people found the following review helpful:  not up to baby einstein's par, By This review is from: Baby Einstein - Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments (DVD) Baby einstein usually puts out great videos. We so far have 5, I think. I have noticed that the newer ones are starting to lack some quality. I think they are being rushed into production, possibly after having sold to disney? But that is just a hunch.Anyway, my husband and I are both orchestra teachers and our daughter loves instruments, especially violin and cello, so we thought this would be right up her alley. Unfortunately as mentioned above, the sounds are mostly synthetic, the animation is truely aweful and there is very little use of the trademarked baby einstein puppets that my daughter loves. They do include some odd choices of instruments- like why included recorder in the woodwind section but not oboe? But bassoon is included. Very odd. As a strings teacher I am offended by the "music box" orchestra. I don't understand why baby einstein feels that children cannot appreciate fully orchestrated pieces. Personally, I feel that it is just a ploy to get people to... Read more 24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:  Bought movie today, 4 days early...., This review is from: Baby Einstein - Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments (DVD) First off, my local grocery store obviously accidentally put this out early because I bought it today, 4 days before the release date. So I bought it for my 1 yr old girl who loves, loves baby einstein.My review of it was it was ok. I was pretty excited about it coming out thinking it was going to be great but like I said it was just ok. I feel like it lacked visual colors that stimulate babies and toddlers. It also didn't have alot of the cutesy things in the dvd that I always wonder where they get this stuff( like toys playing instruments, ect). It mainly used alot of teenagers playing instruments, showing bands playing, and it used the puppets alot more that some of the other dvds. I do think that a toddler watching this would definetly understand that music is something you can make and do, If it keeps their attention long enough. I liked the recent 'on the go' dvd alot more and so did my baby. |
