Diana Springford – Director of Music P-12

Instrument Maintenance Check and Stocktake 

This begins at 8:00 am on Tuesday 28 November 2023.

Question: Does your child use an Emanuel School instrument?

We need ALL Emanuel instruments (including percussion kits) to be in the Music Department hallway cabinets next week please for our annual instrument maintenance check and stocktake.

Any Years K – 12 students borrowing any school instrument should please bring it into the Music Department by 8:00 am on Tuesday 28 November 2023 (or on Wednesday, if they do IP on that day). These instruments will then be checked, cleaned and serviced. Instruments on loan to K – 2 strings players in ISP will be collected in by Monique Turner at their lesson on Monday or Tuesday for the check and stocktake.

Note: If instruments are unavailable for tutors to service from 8:00 am on the day our tutors are booked, parents will be asked to take the instrument to be serviced at a music shop at their own expense.  

Students should remove all sundries from their instrument case because we cannot be responsible for reeds, cork grease, valve oil, rosin, pull throughs or polishing cloths that might be lost in the process. However, students who are returning an instrument permanently because they are leaving the school or not continuing to borrow the instrument in High School after Year 6 IP, should return it with all parts and accessories inside the case, such as percussion stands, practice pad, sticks, mallets, violin shoulder rests, bows etc.

Instruments should be clean and have a student name tag attached with the instrument barcode on the reverse. If this name tag is missing, please ask Joanne De Araujo in the music staffroom to label it for you.

Students should pick up their instruments on Thursday 30 November 2023, unless they get an email from us or are returning them permanently.