As most of you may already know, students at Parkside recorded a Christmas CD in the fall/winter of 2012. The proceeds from the CD sales went directly towards purchasing new instruments for the music room. The donations received at our 2012 Christmas Concert also went towards new instruments. It was a very exciting day in the music room yesterday as some very large packages had arrived! Look below for some photos of the new instruments. Thank you so much to all who participated in the CD project, to those who purchased CD's, and to those who made donations at our Christmas concert. We are so excited to start playing our new instruments!!
1. We purchased 48 colourful scarves (for movement with music), along with several sets of rhythm sticks and xylophone mallets. The 4 books pictured are new resources (2 books with activities/music for world drumming, 1Christmas book for hand bells, 1 Orff book). We also purchased a large buffalo drum.
2. We were so fortunate to have a drumset donated to the school last year. The set itself was in pretty good shape, but needed a few new pieces of hardware. Over the last year we've been working on upgrading our drumset. With the funds received, we purchased a crash cymbal (right), and a ride cymbal (left) as well as two new cymbal stands.
3. We were also able to purchase (L-R) a shekere, a large tubano drum, a train whistle, and an also glockenspiel
4. Colourful tone bells (in a staircase setting!), a new djembe drum, and very large boomwhackers!
5. Here's our brand new ukulele!
6. We were also able to purchase a bass guitar (far left) and a bass amplifier (tall black amp on the table) to add to our gear collection for show bands and concerts.
Thank you again - these new instruments will be invaluable to our music learning and music making here at Parkside!
