Can anyone suggest an instrument for mildly dypraxic DS?

My dyspraxic DD1 took up the violin at age 7. She is 14 now and Grade 4. She will never be a brilliant violinist, but she plays in school bands and orchestras, is doing Music GCSE and generally getting so much out it. She chose the instrument initially and I was a bit dubious, but it has genuinely done amazing things for her fine motor control and wrist strength and helped a lot with her co-ordination as well. She took up ballet too, which again was a bit counter-intuitive, but although she has struggled from time to time to keep up with the more naturally able children in her class it has improved her gross motor skills beyond all recognition.
The key is to let them choose the activities themselves and not put them off because they are not naturally suited to them. Sure, she has had to work hard and struggle in both violin and ballet to achieve a level that many children might attain quite easily, but she values haer achievements all the more highly because of it - and so do we.
We are also unmusical ourselves, but we found that just being supportive in the normal parental way was enough to help her. Let him go with what he is naturally drawn to.
Having said that DD2 chose the cello - bulky and expensive - I could have done without that so maybe steer him away from the harp!

brass instruments are good for that, euphonium (sp?) or trumpet/cornet. but should wait to start until the new front teeth are through.
you can get good mutes (silent brass) so tbat the noise isn't an issue.
brass instuments are great, low maintainance, don't break easily, sound not horrible quickly...

He never got the hang of a recorder.......................

My dyspraxic left handed son has played the trumpet/cornet since he was 8 he is now 11 and also plays the piano. he has taken to both like a duck to water.

Sorry meant to say fun not gum

we got dd2 a keyboard precisely because she has really poor fine motor control.
she can't do blowing and her fine motor is too shot to hold an instrument up and work her fingers though... she would love to play the recorder but it just doesn't work.

she wants to learn guitar but we're holding off for another year or so.

My dyspraxic ds learns the cornet ,smaller and lighter than a trumpet.He has had a lot of gun with it

Something where the fingers are reassuringly visible would be good. Trumpet might be suitable - not too big, doesn't require the finger accuracy of recorder or clarinet and only uses a few fingers of one hand. I have taught saxophone to someone with dyspraxia. He found it hard to start with, then did well and made a nice sound, but you need to be very much older for that. I would have thought recorder would be hard for a dyspraxic child (am wondering if I might have taught some without knowing though?) because the fingering and blowing has to be very precise, but if he can already manage a tune on that he'll probably be OK on most things. Agree strings and piano are difficult.

Ukelele.

You don't have to be as accurate about where your fingers go as on a violin, the strings are lighter (nylon as opposed to wire-bound on violin/guitar), it's nice and quite, you can learn loads of pop songs on it, and it's eminently portable.

I know people who own and work at this shop so that or a similar deal will be good value for money

ds plays a brass instrument - just a few keys to worry about ! Could he try recorder in the meantime to get his fingers moving and learn to read music