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SH Music students have been using our cymbals for well over a decade. These instruments have traveled in rough truck rides over 20 performances per year, have been caught in the rain during football games, and are naturally (as percussion instruments) struck by mallets and sticks on a daily basis 300 days out of a year. Once a year the students have a Maintenance Day detail cleaning, repairing, and paintings deteriorating percussion equipment to ensure they last us even longer. Our great care has helped maintain everything in a decent playing condition for a very long time, however, our cymbals' time on Earth is running short and they will soon be off to the Big Orchestra in the Sky. Several have already cracked/split and passed away! We are in the process of a replacement program for many of our percussion materials because our nationally renowned Bands and Choirs need new instruments to inspire the next generations of musicians to come out of the Dudley-Charlton Community. Each year our music programs and classes touch the lives of nearly 200 students. And with almost 200 students, you can imagine the number of performances we put on for the local community, the state, New England, and even on the national circuit at USBands National Championships in New Jersey, and FAME National Finals in Ohio every year. These specific effect cymbals will be used everyday during the 2018 Marching Band Season, 2019 Winter Percussion Season, 2018/2019 Concert Band seasons, and in two classes throughout the school day. They will live on for many years as learning tools for the next young musician in our school district.

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SH Music students have been using our cymbals for well over a decade. These instruments have traveled in rough truck rides over 20 performances per year, have been caught in the rain during football games, and are naturally (as percussion instruments) struck by mallets and sticks on a daily basis 300 days out of a year. Once a year the students have a Maintenance Day detail cleaning, repairing, and paintings deteriorating percussion equipment to ensure they last us even longer. Our great care has helped maintain everything in a decent playing condition for a very long time, however, our cymbals' time on Earth is running short and they will soon be off to the Big Orchestra in the Sky. Several have already cracked/split and passed away! We are in the process of a replacement program for many of our percussion materials because our nationally renowned Bands and Choirs need new instruments to inspire the next generations of musicians to come out of the Dudley-Charlton Community. Each year our music programs and classes touch the lives of nearly 200 students. And with almost 200 students, you can imagine the number of performances we put on for the local community, the state, New England, and even on the national circuit at USBands National Championships in New Jersey, and FAME National Finals in Ohio every year. These specific effect cymbals will be used everyday during the 2018 Marching Band Season, 2019 Winter Percussion Season, 2018/2019 Concert Band seasons, and in two classes throughout the school day. They will live on for many years as learning tools for the next young musician in our school district.

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