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School Directors

• Special Offer for Beginning Bands & Orchestras!
• Advocacy for Parents!
• How to Get Started?
• What Do I Need To Do?
• Rules & Qualifications
• REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL NOW!

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Here's how to get started

1. Special Offer!
2. Advocacy for Parents!
3. How to Get Started?
4. What Do I Do?
5. Rules & Qualifications
6. REGISTER NOW!
7. FirstInstrument.com Parents Site
8. Redeem your school's points

• Register your school or school district and establish your school’s SMART ID CODE.
• Download the SMART Parent Flyer (Download in English) (Download in Spanish) and fill in your school’s information, including the SMART ID CODE.
• Copy and hand out the flyer to all potential beginning band or orchestra parents and advise them to register their new or used instrument at www.firstinstrument.com. Instrument registration begins April 1, for 2008 spring programs and the 2008-2009 school year.
• Every instrument registered earns points towards new instruments for your program! Instrument rewards begin with as little as 24 instruments registered!

Communicate to Parents as Early as Possible
By bringing this offer to parents early in the recruiting process, you can help them AND help your program at the same time. Here are some major points to emphasize with new band/ orchestra parents at the earliest opportunity:

• Renting a high quality brand name instrument is usually less expensive than buying, in both the short and long term.
  - If the student stays in band/orchestra, much of the rental price often goes to the purchase of the instrument, and may even apply to the purchase of a step-up instrument. And brand name instruments last much longer.
  - If the student drops out, the rental payments will likely be less than the purchase price of a “generic” instrument at any price.
• A brand name instrument is easier to sell and always welcomed back.
  -If the student drops out and the parent sells the instrument to another parent in the school district, a brand name instrument is one that you would feel comfortable being recycled back into your program.
• Renting or buying a student instrument from Conn-Selmer can help to earn a FREE bass drum, chimes, baritone horn, bassoon, double bass, or other instruments for your school.
• An instrument can be registered for up to three years, so the longer the student stays in band or orchestra, the more points your school earns! Students that choose “rental return” instruments can still participate until the individual instrument’s three years are completed.

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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