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To help you find the perfect instrument for your child, we came up with a list of easiest instruments to learn in elementary school. To create our list of easiest elementary school band ...
Local school officials are sending out a special request to area musicians not necessarily for their music, but their extra instruments. Thanks to a new state requirement that middle school student… ...
The statements were made in response to inquiries by the Observer after it received complaints from local area music instrument stores that school district band ...
Discovery Middle School musician Ben Giles, 12, inspects a pair of tenor saxophones, among 18 instruments donated to his school by The Amphitheater at Clark County. The amphitheater teamed with ...
The musical instruments kids play in school bands and orchestras are traveling denizens of bacteria and fungi, say the authors of a new study. Music education is great for kids, they note, but ...
Rick Walker opened a bass clarinet case from Five Oaks Middle School and pulled the instrument from its red velvet bed. Walker, owner of Aloha Wind & Brass Service, has seen this clarinet before ...
MARRERO, La. — Ida silenced a Jefferson Parish Middle School band. The storm, dealt a heavy blow to Marrero Middle School and damaged the majority of their instruments. Now, the band director is ...
Band Director Eric Jimenez takes his Hamilton Middle School symphonic band students through their paces. When some students couldn't afford to buy instruments, he sent out e-mails soliciting ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — There is an old saying, “Music is what life sounds like,” but what can that life sound like when there are no instruments to play?It’s a problem plaguing a m… ...
SHEBOYGAN | If it weren’t for instrument repairman Jeff Schieble, Sheboygan area band directors say they’d likely be spending a lot more time, effort and money on their school music ...