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School Band & Orchestra Rentals
We rent student level band and orchestra instruments to beginning students who are either enrolled in lessons
at The Music Connection or are enrolled in a participating school district's introductory band/orchestra program.
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At Your Band Display
If we participate in your schools introductory band or orchestra program, we'll be at your Band Display to arrange your student's rental, answer all your questions, and give you all the smart money saving options that only Music Connection offers.
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On The Web
Too busy to make it to your band display or it's already passed? Or maybe you just want to get a jump on the best instrument values before they're gone. Music Connection offers the easiest and most comprehensive on-line band rental system in the industry. learn more
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By Phone
651-464-5252 Another way to start your band rental or to get all your questions answered. Call our knowledgeable and friendly staff during normal business hours for expert advice on all your band rental needs.
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In The Store
Get personalized rental service right in our store located in Forest Lake. We can answer all your questions, handle everything about your student's band rental and arrange for delivery to your school. learn more
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Please note: All rentals subject to stock levels of rental inventory. Only schools with an established relationship or students taking lessons at Music Connection are eligible for instrument rentals.
The Right Rental. The Best Price.
High quality school preferred instruments, to fit your budget, with the best possible savings.
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Rent Applies Toward Purchase*
Your Choice of New or Rental Returns** Instruments
6 Months Interest Free
Purchase or Return at Any Time
Early Bird Purchase Discount
Maintenance & Replacements Plans Available
**What's a rental return?
* Less interest and maintenance/replacement plan fees
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MUSIC CONNECTION RENTALS
Established in 1981, the Music Connection is locally owned and operated by professional musicians and music educators.
We specialize in fine musical instruments for education, with a complete assortment of accessories and printed music.
We offer competitive prices & excellent service by our staff of qualified musicians, consultants, repairmen, and teachers.
Our business has grown steadily, thanks to our satisfied customers and their referrals.
We invite you to watch this short video about the "Music Connection Education Connection" and then give our products and services a try and experience the Music Connection difference for yourself!
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We know Music Education...
Besides servicing many elementary, middle school, and high school band programs, Music Connection also provides instruments for higher education as well. We are proud educational partners with:
AUGSBURG COLLEGE
BETHEL UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL PIANO E-COMPETITION
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC
MCNALLY SMITH COLLEGE OF MUSIC
ST. OLAF COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
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The Music Connection has been Minnesota Music Educator's Association's
Sound Contractor of choice for the past 15 years.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997 ~
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The Importance of Music Education
Music is a science.
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics.
A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities,
volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical.
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions
which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language.
Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French;
and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed
kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas.
The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is history.
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation,
often even the country and/ or racial feeling.
Music is physical education.
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles,
in addition to extraordinary control of diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles,
which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all, music is art.
It allows a human being to take all of these dry, technically boring
(but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion.
That is one thing science cannot duplicate;
humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
That is why we teach music.
Not because we expect our students to major in music
Not because we expect them to play or sing all their life
Not so they can relax
Not so they can have fun.
But so they will be human
So they will recognize beauty
So they will be sensitive
So they will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
So they will have something to cling to
So they will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good
... in short, more life.
~ Author Unknown ~
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| Online School Band Program Rental Reservations |
Now reserving for...
and also...
...more added as School
Band Display date approaches.
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Just need to purchase your program's required accessories and books? |
Click here to purchase your program's required accessories and books via our on-line store.
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Instrument needed early
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If you are taking lessons that require you to have your rented instrument before your school delivery date, please call Wendy at (651) 464-5252 to make arrangements.
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| Online Rental Payment |
Soon you will be able to make your
rental payments or pay off your instrument contract online.
Coming Soon!
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| Contact Us |
 Have questions or want more information on how we can get you into the instrument of your choice? Just contact us, we're glad to assist!.
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