Meet Beau, a smiley baby alligator in a navy porkpie hat, a gold bow tie and a purple vest. He stands on a wooden crate on the New Orleans riverfront and plays his black clarinet like a real street musician. His little fingers cover the holes exactly as a player does for every note you play, and Pearl the pelican flaps from parasol to parasol beside him. Toddlers Clarinet turns your phone or tablet into a real-sounding clarinet made for small hands. PLAY Eight frilly second-line parade parasols stand on the boardwalk: big ones for the low notes near you, smaller ones for the high notes further back. Tap a parasol and it twirls and sings with a little face. Hold it and the note keeps singing, slide across the parasols to slur from note to note and wiggle your finger for vibrato. Every new note throws a bead to the riverboat behind and paints a paddle of her wheel in its colour: paint all eight and she toots her steam calliope and sails off round the bend! Record your own tune and play it back, and try more sounds: jazz clarinet, magic clarinet, bass clarinet, muted trumpet, calliope and kazoo. REAL CLARINET The whole clarinet lies across the screen: the mouthpiece and reed, the black wood, the silver keys and the bell. Cover the thumb hole and the six finger holes and every hole makes the note lower, just like the real fingering; hold the register key and every note jumps a twelfth up into the clarinet's bright high voice. A chart shows how to finger the scale, and the big bass clarinet plays the same fingers an octave lower. SONGS 26 songs, from When the Saints Go Marching In, Li'l Liza Jane and Down by the Riverside to Joplin's The Entertainer, Oh! Susanna, Grandfather's Clock, Hava Nagila, Mozart and the Carnival of Venice, each with its own band: Dixieland, second line, ragtime, gospel, polka, klezmer and more. • Magic mode: any parasol plays the next note. • Follow mode: the right parasol glows. • Listen mode: Beau and the band play the whole song. BAND Play with the riverboat band on its deck: snare drum, trombone, banjo, sousaphone and washboard. Pick one of ten grooves (Dixieland, second line, swing, ragtime, zydeco, blues, klezmer, polka, Mozart and a calliope waltz) and every parasol fits. Tap the big JAZZ! button: Beau's clarinet glides up over the band while the calliope toots. Add ten tricks with one tap, from a glissando to a washboard roll and a big finish. GAMES In the Bayou Parade every line of the song brings a friend to march in the second line: an armadillo with a bass drum, a crawfish with a tambourine, a heron with a trombone, a turtle with a banjo and a possum with a tuba. In Balloon Float your child holds long notes to fill a Mardi Gras balloon until it floats up into the fireworks. Repeat Pearl's tunes in Copy Pearl, and tell high from low with the hummingbird and the bullfrog in High or Low? LULLABIES Beau falls asleep in his little boat on the moonlit bayou while baby alligators slide off a log into the water, counted one by one, and the magic clarinet plays lullabies with harp and a music box. A sleep timer slowly fades the music out. MADE FOR FAMILIES • No ads, no tracking, no accounts, no data collection • Works offline • Grown-ups area behind a parental gate: volume limit, daily play time, note names (do-re-mi or letters) • Big, friendly parasols for ages 1 to 5 • Available in 16 languages FREE AND FULL VERSION The free version includes the parasols with the clarinet and jazz clarinet sounds, 5 songs, 2 band styles, 2 tricks and the Bayou Parade game. A single one-time purchase (no subscription) unlocks everything: all 26 songs and lullabies, 10 band styles, all 7 sounds, the real clarinet, all games and up to 20 saved recordings.