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Equipment for Incoming Beginner Percussionists
Greetings and welcome to the NRMS Band and to beginning percussion class! I would like to congratulate each student for being selected for the program and wish you all the best of luck in your musical study. Percussion is a wonderfully diverse idiom of music that covers many styles, instruments and skills, and will be be a very rewarding experience from the 6th through the 12th grade and possibly beyond! It also requires a great deal of equipment!
The following is available through exclusively Lone Star Percussion as the Richland Cluster Beginner Pack This is a list of the required materials for beginning percussionists:
**Tax not included. ** Shipping charges apply if we are sending directly to the customer.
The NRMS Band has combined these items in a package deal from a very fine percussion warehouse in the Dallas area called Lone Star Percussion. Lone Star has agreed to package these items and sell them to incoming NRMS Band students at a discounted rate of $223.70. Lone Star will also be providing a T-Shirt to every incoming NRMS Band Percussionist free of charge! In order to facilitate the purchase of these items, Lone Star has also agreed to hand deliver each student’s package to NRMS for pick-up, so as to alleviate any shipping charge to you! Lone Star will also offer payment options, and packages with shipping ”built in“, for any students that miss the initial order. The cut-off date for the NRMS Band order for beginning percussion equipment will be June 16th, 2008. If your order is placed with Lone Star on or before this date, your package will arrive at NRMS with no shipping charged to you. Packs will be delivered shortly following June 1st to NRMS. (specific dates and times TBD) If you miss the cut-off date, don’t worry! You can still receive the same discount, with the addition of the shipping charge. Also, Lone Star is located just off of 635 at 10611 Control Place in Dallas, so if you miss the cut-off date, and really don’t want to pay the shipping, you can just go pick it up! The website for Lone Star is www.lonestarpercussion.com and can also be found in the "Links" page. Here is the contact information for Lone Star Percussion regarding this purchase: Lone Star Percussion 10611 Control Place Dallas, TX 75238 214.340.0835 support@lonestarpercussion.com
MAKE SURE TO ASK FOR THE RICHLAND CLUSTER BEGINNER PACKAGE!
In addition to this initial equipment purchase, there is also the students’ keyboard instrument rental to consider. These instruments are not required, as they are not used in the classroom, but they are highly recommended. It is possible for the students to stay after school or arrive before school to practice on the school keyboards. However, it should be made known that students with practice marimbas generally show a greater amount of improvement in a shorter time. Your student may fall behind in their keyboard study with our an instrument at home to practice on. Practice Marimbas can be rented, rented-to-own, or purchased from a company called Marimba Warehouse.
The rental for these instruments will be handled by a company called Music and Arts The model to purchase/rent is the Linda Maxey Practice Marimba w/stand. The instrument rents for $49.95 a month Keep in mind that this is not an instrument to be brought from school and back on a daily basis. It is to be left at home for practice purposes. As of this time, the specifics of the rental have not been finalized through Music and Arts. Please stay tuned-
We do not begin keyboard study until November, therefore rentals will not need to begin until that time. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about this, or any other aspect of the Richland Cluster Percussion Program! Evan Blackard Percussion Director Richland Cluster-BISD evanblackard@gmail.com 940.300.7284 | |||||||||||||||
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