Beginning band members and families at Campbell Elementary School are invited to attend the instrument rental night on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Campbell School between 6 and 7:30 p.m. Students who do not ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing student instrument choices, and the tests and procedures used by directors of beginning band. Also examined were differences in ...

When only one company is invited to do business with school districts and parents, everyone loses. There is no competition to keep prices on instruments and repairs reasonable. The single company can, ...

Many parents would agree it’s hard to call the first few notes a child makes on a rented band instrument “music,” but it’s a necessary step toward eventually learning how to play. “The first sounds on ...

PORT ANGELES — The 20 sixth-graders in Jesse Reynolds’ beginning band class at Franklin Elementary School almost didn’t get a chance to play an instrument this year. Eliminating sixth-grade band was ...

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 students ...

At Murray Middle School, 85 instruments had fallen silent. Worn by years of band and orchestra practice, the brass was dented, the strings were frayed and the repair bill was longer than the repair ...

The purpose of this study was to determine which factors most influence instrument choice. Secondary purposes were to determine the degree to which instrument choices corresponded to timbre ...

GRANDVILLE, Mich. – West Michigan Band Instruments is taking legal action against Grandville Public Schools in federal court with hopes it can change a policy the owner says violates the 1st Amendment ...

Maybe music education just wasn’t the right career path for Dakota Nealey. Partway into the music student’s third year at Coastal Carolina University near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Dakota realized ...