How You Can Help

Supplies Donations

Please click the button below for a printable supply donation form. Print a stack of donation forms and hand them out to all your friends!

Supplies Donation Form

Financial Contributions

Financial contributions are always needed to purchase additional items and to cover the cost of mailing packages of supplies.

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Instruments

We also need instruments of all types and sizes! To learn more about donating an instrument, please see our Donating an Instrument or Bow page.

Supplies Needed

The following items are examples of the kinds of materials that are needed by musicians in the developing world.

General

  • Music stands (lightweight folding)
  • Stand lights
  • Metronomes
  • Digital tuners
  • Manuscript paper
  • Pocket music dictionaries
  • Music theory and history books
  • Batons
  • CDs – solo, chamber, and symphonic
  • Portable CD players

Strings

  • Rosin
  • Dust clothes
  • Violin strings sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Viola strings sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Cello strings sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Bass strings
  • Violin shoulder bars sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Viola shoulder bars sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Violin chinrests sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Viola chinrests sizes 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4
  • Rock stops
  • Orchestral mutes – violin, viola, cello and bass
  • Practice mutes – violin, viola, cello, bass
  • Lightweight cases – all strings, all sizes
  • Violin bows – all sizes
  • Viola bows – all sizes
  • Cello bows – all sizes
  • Bass bows
  • Sheet music – solo, etudes, chamber, and string orchestra
  • Pickup microphones – all strings

Winds and Brass

  • Student recorders
  • Key pads – flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, bassoon
  • Mouth pieces – trumpet, cornet, and clarinet
  • Ligatures – oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, bassoon
  • Reeds – all winds
  • Cork grease
  • Key oil
  • Lubricants for brass instruments – piston oil, rotor oil, slide grease, slide-o-mix
  • Cleaning snakes
  • Mouthpiece brushes
  • Polishing cloths
  • Silk cleaning swabs
  • Sheet music – solo, etudes, chamber, and wind ensemble

Percussion

  • Mallets/sticks
  • Practice pads
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