OUR STORY
Our Team
Allison Davies, BMusBTchMasMusThy, is a former Neurologic Music Therapist living in Lutruwita (so-called Tasmania), Australia. She lives in the bush, by the beach with her husband, two children and their furry friends Bowie, Chai and Fluffy. Alli’s first musical love was Fats Domino, her first ever words, at age one, came from a Fats cassette her Dad made her, and her life’s trajectory was basically set in stone from that moment on. Alli studied ethno-musicology as part of her bachelor of music and is thrilled to be now curating a collection of traditional, cross-cultural and improvisational instruments.
Leighton Burr, husband to Alli, is the one who keeps their family on track. An incredible dad and husband who never really complains (or even rolls his eyes) when Alli comes home with a new idea that she simply MUST work on immediately! He is the grounding force in OMMG, the keeper of the Status Quo and the voice of reason when it is needed.
Our Community
The concept of OMMG was born following the birth of our children – Maple and Chester. For a decade now, OMMG has been creating community, drawing together families who honour the use of music as a tool for felt-safety in their lives. A way of supporting sensory and emotional needs and an effective form of self + co-regulation.
If you require an NDIS invoice or official receipt please contact us at ohmymusicalgoodness@gmail.com to let us know.
As an AuDHD’er of an neurodivergent family, and a background in music therapy Alli is well aware of the regulatory benefits of these instruments, and aims to create musical options for those who prefer a sensory minimal and demand minimal musical experience.
These instruments are intended to keep on the coffee table, on the bookshelf or in any other central place where they can be accessed by community who need them in any given moment for their regulatory benefits! Please don’t pack them away in the music box where they will only be brought out at ‘music time’.
It’s time for music to be accessible in multiple ways, for all people, whenever needed. xxx
Oh My Musical Goodness is a musical love story.
Across a lifetime lived in the musical world we realised that access to making music had become limited to two main factors – you either had to be able to read music and ‘learn’ an instrument, or you had to be content to shake a maraca, click a castanet or tap a tambourine. What’s more, you only had access to ‘proper’ instruments (the ones requiring lessons), or to a selection of bright, childlike plastic instruments or cheap, noisy tools of percussion.
The era of hand-crafted, intricately carved, instinctively played instruments of emotional, energetic and spiritual significance, in the Western World, was practically non existent! So? We vowed to reignite the musical light.
The instruments you’ll find at Oh My Musical Goodness can be played by anyone, regardless of musical background or ability. They are utterly beautiful to hear, incredible to touch and play, and they create rhythm and melody in a way that realign, reenergise and delight.
This is not a store for shakers, clickers and clackers. The instruments held in this space allow meaningful and mindful music to be created, for anyone who touches the instrument, whether they be baby or elder.
Our Values
The ethical integrity of OMMG is of utmost importance to us. We aim to bring you instruments that are handcrafted by artisans using traditional methods. Our Nepalise instruments have been sourced directly from Nepalise makers with no middle man involvment.
We have an environmental responsibility that sees us avoid plastics and curate instruments that won’t lose their novelty and will last forever. OMMG’s primary value and motivation is that our instruments are inclusive and accessible by people of all abilities; regardless of age, musical background or their physical, mental or emotional capacities.
As a music therapist, Alli is determined to bridge the gap between those who ‘can’ play music and those who ‘can’t’, re-introducing an equal playing field where anyone with the desire to do so can create meaningful music. There is no such thing as ‘musical’ and ‘non-musical’, and instruments that require no lessons or musical training are the proof.
