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• Special Offer for Beginning Bands & Orchestras!
• Advocacy for Parents!
• How to Get Started?
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Special offer for all beginning bands and orchestras!

Make your band & orchestra parents…

(Your School Music Assistance Resource Team)

And earn FREE INSTRUMENTS for your school or school district!

What is SMART Parents?
SMART Parents is a rewards program that you can easily incorporate into your beginning band and orchestra. With this program, parents register their instruments and automatically earn points for your school. These points can be redeemed by your school for FREE band and orchestral instruments from Conn-Selmer.

Getting students started with their first band or orchestra experience is an exciting time! Sharing the wonders of music performance with a new class of young people is an incredible opportunity for them and for you. Every beginner already envisions that first performance in front of family and friends, even before they touch their first instruments.

Getting the right first instrument, however, can be the difference between success and failure for a student. It’s most important that the instrument brands your students bring to their lessons are easy to play, easy to use, reliable, in tune, and repairable. You probably already know what brands don’t perform well in a school situation. Yet, every year, students show up with instruments from who-knows-where, made by who-knows-who and you are left with the difficult task of telling a new music parent that the instrument they purchased is simply not acceptable. Conn-Selmer’s SMART Parent program can help you overcome some of these issues, while providing free instruments for your ensemble at the same time.

Choose From…

• Low brass, harmony woodwinds, double reeds – expand your instrumentation and your repertoire!
• Cellos and double basses for a complete orchestral experience!
• Percussion equipment for expanded learning opportunities!
• Student instruments for qualified student use!

1. Special Offer for Beginning Bands & Orchestras!
2. Advocacy for Parents!
3. How to Get Started?
4. What Do I Do?
5. Rules & Qualifications
6. REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL NOW!
7. Firstinstrument.com Parents Site

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