We have given the carillon our almost 1 year old daughter to Nicholas. She's at an age where they like rumtrommelt anywhere, so a chime makes it much more pleasant "noise" as a proper drums. Moreover wennŽs goes for hours. She knocks very excited around it and sometimes even with our large (almost 3) together. So far, the carillon has been through all good, also, that it is already fallen down a few times. The sounds are very nice and clear, you can play all kinds of songs with it, some who are not in the accompanying booklet. I play the kids also liked what before, but mostly they want themselves. The note described in the song book is instructive, but everything of course too early for my little ones. I want my children playfully ranführen to music and I think with this carillon wirds also a breeze! :)