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The 2017 school year is over, summer band programs are beginning, and planning for 2018 is well underway.

It’s been a great ride: elementary school band playing for school assemblies, junior high school band with marching and a few concerts, and then high school band with parades, concerts,...

There are few aspects of playing a stringed instrument (specifically violin/viola) which feel like a natural, physically familiar, comfortable use of the body. 

Directors are entrusted with thousands of dollars of instruments and equipment, yet along the way, few have ever had a course in business management.

Ideally, every band and orchestra teacher would like every child in their band and strings programs to own a quality “step-up” instrument, and the sooner, the better.