Music in Schools Today: Adopt an Instrument

Watch the news coverage of this program at • Emery Middle School in Emeryville • Claremont Middle School in Oakland Our public schools need musical instruments desperately. Because new instruments are so expensive, their purchase and repair are major stumbling blocks to starting or maintaining school music programs. Music in Schools Today recognized the instrument need and created the original, year-round Adopt an Instrument program in 1990. The program is simple. It recycles donated musical instruments to public schools -- people give their used musical instruments to us, and we distribute them to schools and community centers year-round. Sinaloa Middle School students with instruments donated through Adopt an Instrument program.
Bay Area Donation Drop-off Locations MuST accepts instrument donations at the following locations: San Francisco Music in Schools Today Office ~ 582 Market Street, Suite 213 Please call to schedule a time before coming by, to be sure we're in. Clarion Music ~ 816 Sacramento Street, between Grant and Stockton Lark in the Morning ~ The Cannery, 2801 Leavenworth Street @ Columbus Stern Grove ~ MuST booth at Stern Grove concerts every Sunday during the summer East Bay George Spencer or Wanda Stewart Emery Unified School District 4727 San Pablo Avenue Emeryville, CA 94608 George: (510) 601-4951 or Wanda: (510) 601-4907 South Bay Carey Crow District Coordinator, After School Programs Ravenswood City School District 2120 Euclid Avenue East Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 614-4300 Peninsula NOTE: Please call to schedule appointment Leanne Burr Music at Kohl Mansion 2750 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 762-1130 Napa and Sonoma Counties Please call Karen Haslag at 707-996-9113 to arrange.
Bay Area Public School Teachers: Request Instruments Bay Area music teachers, please e-mail us your musical instrument needs. If you have a need for a piano, in particular, please contact us. Also, please feel free to fill out our online survey of your music needs so that we can better serve you. Thank you!
Mayor Gavin Newsom donates a guitar to KFOG morning show host Dave Morey for our KFOG instrument drive.	KFOG DJ Rosalie (R) donates a guitar to Erin Kenny and Mary Destri of MuST, for our Adopt an Instrument program.
Digidesign's Instrument Drive for MuST We would like to thank Jay LeBoeuf, Senior Audio Engineer at Digidesign in Daly City, for organizing an in-house instrument drive for our Adopt an Instrument program this summer! On August 31, we received dozens of instruments and other equipment, which will be going to several public schools and youth centers in low income areas. Digidesign also donated six brand new MBox 2s, which will be going to: The DJ Project, Destiny Arts, DUSTY, Boys and Girls Clubs, and Youth Movement Records. Once Digidesign's Menlo Park office heard what the Daly City office had done, they decided to hold their own drive, so stay tuned!

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