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The best place to purchase these supplies is at one of our local music stores!

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Band Binder - We will order these

We will provide your student's band binders as well as a pencil pouch, pencils, highlighters, page protectors, and dividers at the start of the school year as part of your band fees. 

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Foundations for Superior Performance - We will order these

All 7th-12th grade woodwind and brass students need the Blue Foundations for Superior Performance book. We will order these as a part of the band fees. If your students take care of theirs, it can last them years!

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Accessories and Materials for ALL woodwind and brass students:

• Music stand (Any music stand will do! Nothing fancy needed!)

• Korg TM70 Metronome/Tuner

• Korg CM400 Tuner clip-on pickup

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Jazz band specific fees:

• Red Jazz binder with dividers, a pencil pouch, pencils, and highlighters (We will order these as part of fees)

• Essential Elements for Jazz book (We will order these as part of fees)

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Flute players

• Silver polishing cloth​

• Flute cleaning and tuning rod

• Silk Flute swab

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Clarinet and Saxophone players

• Silk swab

• Reed case with at least 8 slots

• 8 reeds in good condition at all times

• • We typically recommend one new box of reeds per academic quarter (8-9 weeks)

  • We recommend D'Addario Reserve Classic Organic (Purple Box) for Clarinets

    • All 7th/8th grade students should be on a strength 3.5 or 3.5+​

  • We recommend Vandoren blue box or D'Addario Reserve for Saxophones

    • ​All 7th/8th grade students should be on a strength 3 unless your student has been told otherwise!

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Oboes and Bassoons

• Silk swab

• Reed soaker cup / clip for their stand

• Reed case with at least 3 reeds in good condition at all times

• Reeds should be purchased from your private lesson teacher

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Brass players

• Appropriate valve oil (Hetmen #2 or Hetman #12 Rotary oil for horns and 7th/8th Tubas)

• Bach 2942BSG tuning slide grease

• Trombone players need a spray bottle and Slide-O-Mix

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Percussionists

• Music stand

• Korg TM60 Metronome/Tuner

• Stick bag that zips closed

• One pair of high quality concert snare drum sticks (Not drumset sticks)

  • ​Innovative Percussion Christopher Lamb #1 Signature Concert Snare Sticks (CL-1L) OR

  • Vic Firth Ted Atkatz Signature Series Drumsticks (Model #SATK)

• Two pairs of matching yarn marimba mallets (for four-mallet grip)

  • ​Order one additional pair that matches what you have (medium or medium hard yarn with a birch shaft)

• "Super Hands" book (Ordered through the school)

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