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Percussion Cabinet

My students need a mobile percussion cabinet in order to enhance their rehearsal and learning experience.

  • $1,941 goal

This project expired on May 26, 2009.

This project expired on May 26, 2009.

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Mr. L.
Grades 9-12

I am the band director of a school that is nestled in a culturally rich neighborhood of many races and cultures in NYC. Our school services grades 6 – 12. The subject that I teach is music. The music classes that are offered at school are General Music (required for graduation), Beginning Winds, and Advanced Band. We are looking to establish a program to start students at the middle school level in order to cultivate talent and hopefully retain students when moving on to high school. We can say that we are on the right track in that we hired a middle school music teacher to expand our program and expose our middle school students to the joys of music and its positives at multiple levels: academic, social, and personal. The above is a telling step in that our school is ‘small’ in comparison to New York City standards; our school houses 850 students from grades 6-12. I would say that optimism is the true success of our flourishing program but there are clear obstacles. As Kahlil Gibran said, “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.” This above is my motto. In fact, since my appointment at school this has been a quote that has gotten me through difficult times but unfortunately did not rid our school and music program from its hurtles- both financial and spatial. Financial obstacles have forever haunted the arts. In the back of any band director's mind is will the program survive another school year. Hurtling of these obstacles is clear through our success and the students' growth. After all, they are reason for all our efforts. The second obstacle is the facility itself. Being a small school space is a reoccurring issue and serves as a double edged sword. Presently, 11% of the high school population is involved in instrumental music but a constant hindrance is room. There is one music room that serves all the students including general music classes so it is imperative to put thought into how to store music, supplies, and music equipment. On the other, it a plus having such an intimate school in that close relationships are born and musical growth is magnified. The resource we are looking towards is a Percussion Cabinet. In a growing music program we are now traveling and performing at multiple music festivals and venues. We are trying to increase our musicality and one aspect to that is acoustics. Our music room is located within a pre-war building in a large classroom that was not intended to house a concert band our size. Space has become a growing concern for our program. As director I am constantly innovating methods to facilitate rehearsals and utilize all the space the room offers. An integral piece of equipment that will aid in achieving this issue would be a percussion cabinet. Presently my students and I try to keep the section orderly but even with this effort the percussion takes up a lot of unnecessary space. With a kind donation of a percussion cabinet we can better organize and utilize the valuable space that our rehearsal offers. Through consideration and fulfillment of this proposal you have the chance to make the musical experience more productive. You will offer a tool that will enhance the quality of our rehearsal room that will undoubtedly improve the rehearsal experience and give students in general music class more the ability to learn in a less constricted classroom.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

25 students impacted
Mr. L. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

25 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mobile Percussion Cabinets (PC400) • Woodwind & Brasswind $1,398.99 1 $1,398.99

Materials cost

$1,398.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $139.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$34.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$1,591.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$349.24

Total project goal

$1,940.24

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