GROUP LESSONS
Each student will receive group lessons and full band meetings during their school day schedule. Your student will receive their meeting period on the first day of school. Our unique program with small and full group meetings will offer students how to assemble, take care of, and play their instruments as well as learn about their roles and place in a large concert band setting. It is essential that all students practice and share the required materials/recordings, etc. as requested by their course instructor.
PRIVATE LESSONS
Many students and families find private lessons to be extremely rewarding and beneficial. Students who have had previous experience in music or have moved ahead or fallen behind their group for any reason often benefit from private instruction. There are many excellent private music teachers in our area. Please consult your student's course instructor for recommendations as to who might be the best private teacher for them.
Through a bid process David French Music Co. of Westborough, MA was selected by the Harvard Public Schools to offer a rental plan as a convenience to you. However, you may acquire an instrument, new or used, from any source.
If you choose to rent from David French Music Co., they will have a list of the students and their instrument choice at the instrument rental night. The rental night is tentatively scheduled for a date TBD in the Cronin Auditorium at Bromfield.
SWITCHING INSTRUMENTS
The switching of instruments in mid-year is not encouraged. Switching is a difficult change for the student, and it is stressful on the other students in the section groups. If a switch occurs, the student is a beginner once again and needs to learn everything from assembling the instrument, to how to hold it, etc. Because of this, students are often very far behind the normal progression of others who have been playing through the year.
The following rules and steps need to be followed in order for a student to switch instruments within the Bromfield band program:
• The student must take private lessons with a professional teacher of your choice.
• The student will be allowed into the section group (ie: trumpet section, low brass, etc.) at the instructor’s discretion, and when the instructor feels the student is at the current level of the group.
INSTRUMENT REPAIR
If you choose to rent an instrument through the David French Music Co., the cost of your repairs in most cases are free of charge. When the instrument needs a repair, you may call them and they will pick up instruments in need of repair every Thursday morning at the school. Please have your student notify the course instructor should their instrument be going out for any repair, as the vendor representative is often in communication with the band director as to what may be going out, if a loaner is going to be left for the student, etc. Please be careful if you take your instrument to a music store to be repaired on your own. Some music stores take weeks to months to repair instruments. We advise not to have an instrument repaired anywhere where they will not give your student a loaner instrument.
INSTRUMENT RENTAL NIGHT
Tentative Date: TBD
For Renting Band Instruments
Cronin Auditorium - The Bromfield School
If you decide to rent from David French, band instruments should be rented on the date listed above.
A representative from David French Music Co. will be present to answer questions. Please make every effort to attend the meeting and instrument rental night. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. It takes very little time to fill out the contract with the Music Company, and this will ensure that your student will have their instrument for our first meeting of playing and putting things together. Instruments for rent are brand new and completely sanitized.
Each student will receive group lessons and full band meetings during their school day schedule. Your student will receive their meeting period on the first day of school. Our unique program with small and full group meetings will offer students how to assemble, take care of, and play their instruments as well as learn about their roles and place in a large concert band setting. It is essential that all students practice and share the required materials/recordings, etc. as requested by their course instructor.
PRIVATE LESSONS
Many students and families find private lessons to be extremely rewarding and beneficial. Students who have had previous experience in music or have moved ahead or fallen behind their group for any reason often benefit from private instruction. There are many excellent private music teachers in our area. Please consult your student's course instructor for recommendations as to who might be the best private teacher for them.
Through a bid process David French Music Co. of Westborough, MA was selected by the Harvard Public Schools to offer a rental plan as a convenience to you. However, you may acquire an instrument, new or used, from any source.
If you choose to rent from David French Music Co., they will have a list of the students and their instrument choice at the instrument rental night. The rental night is tentatively scheduled for a date TBD in the Cronin Auditorium at Bromfield.
SWITCHING INSTRUMENTS
The switching of instruments in mid-year is not encouraged. Switching is a difficult change for the student, and it is stressful on the other students in the section groups. If a switch occurs, the student is a beginner once again and needs to learn everything from assembling the instrument, to how to hold it, etc. Because of this, students are often very far behind the normal progression of others who have been playing through the year.
The following rules and steps need to be followed in order for a student to switch instruments within the Bromfield band program:
• The student must take private lessons with a professional teacher of your choice.
• The student will be allowed into the section group (ie: trumpet section, low brass, etc.) at the instructor’s discretion, and when the instructor feels the student is at the current level of the group.
INSTRUMENT REPAIR
If you choose to rent an instrument through the David French Music Co., the cost of your repairs in most cases are free of charge. When the instrument needs a repair, you may call them and they will pick up instruments in need of repair every Thursday morning at the school. Please have your student notify the course instructor should their instrument be going out for any repair, as the vendor representative is often in communication with the band director as to what may be going out, if a loaner is going to be left for the student, etc. Please be careful if you take your instrument to a music store to be repaired on your own. Some music stores take weeks to months to repair instruments. We advise not to have an instrument repaired anywhere where they will not give your student a loaner instrument.
INSTRUMENT RENTAL NIGHT
Tentative Date: TBD
For Renting Band Instruments
Cronin Auditorium - The Bromfield School
If you decide to rent from David French, band instruments should be rented on the date listed above.
A representative from David French Music Co. will be present to answer questions. Please make every effort to attend the meeting and instrument rental night. The meeting will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. It takes very little time to fill out the contract with the Music Company, and this will ensure that your student will have their instrument for our first meeting of playing and putting things together. Instruments for rent are brand new and completely sanitized.
