Amazon Sends 50 Musical Instruments to Rainier Beach High
More to come but from SPS:
Responding to a student-led campaign to ask the Seattle community for donated instruments to support the Rainier Beach High School (RBHS) Music Program, E-commerce company, Amazon, will deliver more than 50 new instruments to RBHS.
Amazon is a proud to support RBHS and this donation will provide young musicians the opportunity to follow their passions. They are also dedicated to supporting the needs of the Seattle community. Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is proud to team-up with Amazon to provide the best educational experience for students across the district.
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Fix AL
-NW mom
They did finally tweet about the Paul Allen Foundation gift.
The money to maintain these instruments so they're actually playable over time - where's that coming from?
SPS has a crappy track record on maintenance. On everything. And it costs more then.
I hope Amazon has some interested people who will set up a way to help keep these instruments in good condition, not just a "donate and forget."
-- Math Counts
-Music Wonk
You get your child's trumpet serviced twice a year? Maybe that's why my daughter sounds so dreadful! Ha ha. She's gone her whole middle school career on an unserviced trumpet! :)
Agree about maintenance though. And reeds!! Reeds are expensive.
But yay for Amazon. Since they are making mountains of money and fundamentally changing the landscape of Seattle (geography, demographics, cost of housing, traffic), it's nice to hear about them giving back to the community.
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Rawkbox is a volunteer run Seattle, Washington based nonprofit (501c3) offering new, used, repaired, recycled, or up-cycled guitars and guitar related gear exclusively to music education nonprofits at low or no cost.
The "rawk" in Rawkbox is aiding music organizations in maintaining, repairing, and recycling instruments for student use. We focus on instruments so they can focus on education.
The "box" in Rawkbox is our mobile repair vehicle. A repair shop on wheels enabling us to go onsite and setup, repair, refurbish, or recycle the gear used in schools, camps, and other music education focused organizations and events (think food truck style vehicle).
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