BELFAST ZOO: Elephants welcome Bing Bang Bong!

11 April 2011
Elephants welcome Bing Bang Bong!

Bingbangbong have celebrated their tenth anniversary by becoming our latest corporate partners and official sponsors of the Asian elephant enclosure.

Bingbangbong design and manufacture outdoor musical instruments for educational and public play and provide complimentary musical resources for non-musician teachers.

Bing Bang Bong founder and managing director Paul Marshall said, “We are absolutely delighted to further develop our relationship with Belfast Zoo. Just like the elephants, our no-nonsense outdoor musical instruments are extremely robust and will be around for a very long time.”

As part of the corporate partnership, Bing Bang Bong have installed a set of pentatonic musical instruments in the zoo’s play area. The no-wrong-notes tuning means that they have been immediately popular among visitors, zoo staff and even with the lemurs!

Bing Bang Bong have used some of their benefits as partners to provide an exciting prize for their latest competition and are inviting local schoolchildren to send in suggestions to name the baby elephant in their logo.

The school that proposes the winning name will win a set of small dragon chimes for the school, a tour of the zoo, a special behind-the-scenes visit to the elephants and a demonstration of the zoo instruments.

For more information on the competition or to enter go to www.bingbangbong.com/zoo

For more information about Bingbangbong go to www.bingbangbong.com

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Notes to editors

• Watch a video of the instruments in action on the zoo’s facebook. www.facebook.co.uk/belfastzoo

• Founder Paul Marshall, a former early years music educator, has used his experience to create musical instruments of specific educational benefit to schools and nurseries.

• Bingbangbong is a survivor of BBC Dragons Den and design consultant to STOMP. Their designs have also been used by IKEA and 20th Century Fox.

• Bingbangbong has sponsored our Elephant enclosure and is investigating the design of elephant musical instruments for our girls.

• Belfast Zoo is now on facebook! Go to www.facebook.com/belfastzoo , and click ‘like’ to become a fan and receive up to date news. We are also on Twitter, www.twitter.com/belfastzoo