According to children's physiological and cognitive characteristics, piano, electric piano, electronic piano and other keyboard instruments are the first choice for children's enlightenment music. The reasons are as follows: 1. Fixing the intonation of keyboard instruments is helpful to the formation of children's ability to distinguish intonation. B. The learning of piano and electronic organ is operated by eyes and hands, which is conducive to the cultivation of coordination and the development of both sides of the brain, especially the right brain; C no matter which instrument you choose, you should pay attention to solfeggio and ear training at the beginning, because learning music is not only to learn to play and sing, but also to learn to appreciate. The best solfeggio tools are keyboard instruments, such as piano; Children under 2.3 years old have small vital capacity and have difficulty in learning to play, so it is best not to choose this instrument.

Try to choose portable musical instruments for children to perform in various occasions. Many parents and children want to perform on stage, which can cultivate children's self-confidence and pride. It is suggested to learn western musical instruments first. Western musical instruments use staff, which can be in line with international standards, and it will be much easier to transfer to national musical instruments to recognize the simplified notation in the future.

Precautions for children to learn musical instruments:

1. According to children's intellectual development and physical development. Children aged 3-4 learn musical instruments earlier. At the age of five, he began to learn keyboard instruments such as piano, electronic organ and accordion, and at the age of six, he began to learn stringed instruments such as violin and erhu. Generally speaking, it will be better to learn stringed instruments after learning keyboard instruments for one year and basically mastering intonation and rhythm.

2. Family economic status. Children need to buy a piano, a teacher, music lessons, books, music scores and audio-visual materials. While your child is learning the piano, you can also consider letting your child take part in exams, musical instrument competitions and other activities. In addition, some musical instruments need to be replaced accordingly during the learning process. For example: violin, erhu, accordion, etc. If your family's economic conditions are not good, you can consider choosing a musical instrument, such as flute and cucurbit silk.

3. hobbies. Each instrument has its own unique charm and is worth learning. However, not all musical instruments can arouse children's same interest. In the case of a wide variety of musical instruments, parents can let their children touch more musical instruments: let their children listen to the sounds of various musical instruments and let them see what these instruments look like. Through daily communication with children, you will find out which kind of musical instruments children pay more attention to. Because the best teacher for children is interest.

4. Children's own qualities. Each musical instrument has its own characteristics, so the requirements for the players' own quality and conditions are also different. For example, playing the piano requires slender fingers, and learning violin, erhu and other musical instruments. In addition to the length of fingers, the little finger also has a special requirement, that is, the fingertip of the little finger should reach the first joint line of the ring finger. Of course, these requirements are not absolute, but if the child's physical quality meets these requirements, it will be much easier to learn.