Living Sky Band and Music Programs

St. John’s Music has provided me with some information about purchasing an African Drum Class set, which could be loaned out through the division on a rotating basis. Here is what Nadine wrote:

Below is a list of the complete world percussion kit.  It sells for $5139.95

Package C PPWMDCCC
3-10″, 5-12″, and 3-14″ tunable tubanos; 1-12″ tunable djembe; 2 talking
drums; 2 talking drum mallets; 2-16″ pre-tuned hand drums; 2 pre-tuned
bongos; 6 Senor Kelly shakers; 2 guiros; 2 pairs of claves; 2 pairs of
maracas; 1 medium and 1 large gongokui; 2 shekeres; 2 cowbells; 1 World
Music Drumming classroom instruction kit and 1 standing Ngoma leaders drum.

If you would like more detail on particular types of drums listed you can go to www.remo.com to the products section and then select world percussion.

This is the same package we have sold to other divisions and they have given very positive feedback on it.  It is generally a good size for most school classes. It also includes the instruction kit which incorporates the use of the entire kit in one class.

So what do you think? We received an increase to the instrument purchase fund this year (we now have $12,000) and we could buy a kit and still have about half left to help those of you in need of new instruments (including those schools who get mouthpieces this time).   Keep in mind that the drum set would be good for those schools who do not have a band specialist as well. We would include teacher materials as well. I’d love to hear your thoughts – please leave a comment here.