Freenotes Harmony Park, a Durango company, made these large instruments installed in a Moab, Utah, park. A Discovery Channel segment about the company won an award for creative excellence.
Freenotes Harmony Park, a Durango company, made these large instruments installed in a Moab, Utah, park. A Discovery Channel segment about the company won an award for creative excellence.Courtesy of Freenotes Harmony Park

The segment, featuring how Freenotes Harmony Park’s instruments are used, won a bronze Telly Award this week for creative excellence.

The channel’s show called “Innovations with Ed Begley Jr.” featured how the instruments, such as large-tuned drums and bells, have been used in musical therapy and other industries.

For example, instruments have been used at a research facility for sensory processes that works with children who have social dysfunctions, said Christy Cooke, a co-owner of the company.

All the instruments are tuned to the same scale, so the notes will never sound dissonant.

“I like to think of it as finger-painting with sound,” Cooke said.

The segment also featured how the instruments are used at the Rocky Mountain School of Musical Arts and at a park in Moab, Utah.

Herald Staff