 After finishing a wonderful music career, Lee H. Kuijpers started tuning Orff instruments in the early sixties. Together with Pierre van Hauwe, one of Orff's students, Lee H. Kuijpers started to build a complete Orff-Schulwerk line under the trademark GB. From that time on De Gouden Brug (GB) and Orff-Schulwerk are closely related to each other. Our thirty years of vast knowledge in the field of the wood- and metalworking has been combined with durable materials to create a new range of concert instruments. We carry a complete line of concert instruments with glockenspiels, xylophones, metallophones and marimbas, the "Elegant" line. From a small workshop in the early sixties, our firm expanded rapidly to a large company. Nowadays we are established on a large industrial estate at the ring road of Hilversum. We have become a byword and a firmly established member of the music market.
GOLD AND MUSIC.
 Following question usually intrigues everyone who is connected with Orff-Shulwerk and who thus comes into contact with our firm. What is the meaning of the name "De Gouden Brug" (the Golden Bridge). Or rather: what does it signify? From time immemorial, gold was the costliest and most valuable commodity that anyone might endeavour to acquire. Our philosophy speaks of inner gold held aloft in our mind by the strong pillars of bridge leading, quite simple, to happiness. A well-know German Children's song was the inspiration for our firm's name. This song is constructed on the four pillars that form the basis for some basic music practice: DO-MI-SO-LA.
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