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Ms. West from Los Angeles CA is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Baritone Horn for the Band

My students need a new baritone horn so no one has to share an instrument and can take it home to practice.

  • $2,378 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

“Without music, Life would be an error. –Nietzsche Low brass instruments are large and challenging for middle school students to handle. Musicians need to be proud of their instruments and themselves.

We have a large instrumental music program of over 300 musicians.

Students can play brass, woodwinds, strings or percussion. If they want to, they can be in music all three years of middle school. Many students come in with musical experience and many students learn how to play an instrument in beginning winds/percussion or beginning strings. We are proud that our school and music program is very ethnically diverse.

My Project

A new baritone horn will enable more students to play the baritone and take it home to practice. Our worst baritone has a removable bell that falls off and bangs on the floor. No one wants to play it and that shouldn't be a challenge. Learning to play an instrument should be challenging in music terms not in equipment terms.

A new instrument is a joy to a student.

A new baritone will make the student who uses it this year proud and the ones that follow in the future will be able to make music and be a part of a band.

Ms. West
Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
625 / 627 Diplomat Series Bb Baritone Horn • Woodwind and Brasswind $1,799.00 1 $1,799.00

Materials cost

$1,799.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $164.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$26.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,020.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$356.57

Total project goal

$2,377.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,377.16

2 Donors

-$2,377.16

Donations toward project cost

-$2,020.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$356.57

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