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Progress and further opportunities
Applying for lessons and further information |
Instruments Pupils' commitment and success in instrumental lessons is greatest when they own their own instrument. CMS has a stock of instruments for hire to enable beginners to try out an instrument before parents / carers commit to purchase, and to provide continuing access to an instrument for low income families or where the cost of purchasing an instrument is high. The stock of CMS instruments is limited, and the availability of an instrument is not guaranteed. Instrument hire is not available for keyboard, drum kit, guitar or saxophone. Some schools also have instruments available.
CMS also has an Instrument Assisted Purchase Scheme (IAPS) to enable parents / carers to purchase instruments free of VAT for pupils using them in lessons. Alternatively retailers have a range of hire to buy schemes. Contact your child's teacher for advice on the make, model and size of instrument to buy.
Not all instruments are suitable for all ages, for example string instruments are available in small sizes, wind instruments only in adult sizes, and not all instruments are taught in all schools. It is best to choose an instrument your child has expressed an interest in, and you may like to consider that some of the more unusual instruments will offer more opportunities for playing with others in bands and orchestras. It is not unusual for a child to try one instrument, not get on with it and then be very successful at another.
To find out more about the different instrument families (including advice on instrument purchase), click on the links below. |
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Watch this space! As the website develops we shall have a page where parents / carers can buy and sell second hand instruments |