I bought this for my classroom. Teachers/adults tend to say, "BE QUIET CLASS/Kid/Room full of adults" and expect the very next moment to be 100% silent. And this never happens. Humans want to finish their breath, word, or sentence. Including me in meetings. So, I introduced The Triangle to my classroom. I start with that "I wish" introduction above. Then ask for silence as I hit the triangle once and we all listen for the chime sound to stop. When the chime stops, I ask students to show me a thumbs up. We realize that different folks have different hearing capacities (also depends on how close you are). Then I explain that it took about 30-seconds for the noise to stop. And when I hit The Triangle, I expect the classroom to end their word or sentence and then be silent for an announcement or direction and show me their thumbs up so their hands are empty, eyes on me, and they’re ready to listen. I also explain that hitting The Triangle does NOT mean talk as much as possible for as loud as possible until the noise is over. Ha! It’s working well so far. My only minor complaint is that the sound isn’t quite as beautiful as I was hoping, but for the price and purpose it’s great.

This inexpensive little triangle is a star in our current community orchestra concert. Nice bright sound which everybody notices, especially when I manage to count the all the rests between the Percussion II part correctly.

This is a decent triangle. Not symphony quality, but what do we expect at this price? Having bought the 7″ I would personally prefer a smaller triangle for a higher “ting” sound, but the triangle itself works fine.