Instrument and equipment hire for schools
Schools can access two types of instrument/equipment hire from Dorset Music Service: individual instruments or sets of instruments.
Our instruments are hired subject to availability – please complete our request form to find out if the instruments you would like are currently available. If the instrument or equipment is not included in the lists below, please complete our request form to tell us what it is that you would like.
Individual instrument hire
Individual instrument hires last for a year and cost either £60 or £120 depending on the instrument. These are the instruments which are available for individual hires:
£60 per year (Price bands A&B):
- guitar (classical acoustic)
- keyboard
- violin
- viola
- cello
- double bass
- flute
- alto saxophone
- clarinet (B-flat)
- trumpet
- cornet
- French horn
- trombone
- tenor horn
- baritone horn
£120 per year (Price band C):
- electric guitar (including practice amplifier)
- drum kit
- euphonium
- tuba
- piccolo
- oboe
- bassoon
- cor anglais
- ‘specialist’ clarinets – E-flat, A, alto and bass
- ‘specialist’ saxophones – tenor, soprano and baritone
Tell us what you would like to hire by completing this request form
Sets of instruments or equipment
£190 or £240 per term (Price band D):
Sets of instruments are hired on a termly basis. A set of 35 or less instruments costs £190 per term to hire if schools do not require delivery and/or collection. A set of 35 or less instruments with delivery and/or collection costs £240 per term.
These are the sets of instruments that are available to hire:
- Early Years music set
- iPads
- Chromebooks
- Jumbie Jams (steel pans)
- Djembe drums
- Taiko drums
- Samba drums and percussion
- Keyboards
- Turntables (single turntable type for KS2/3 pupils)
- DJ decks (dual turntable type for KS3+ pupils)
- Ukuleles
- Guitars (classical)
- Violins
- Mixed strings (violins, violas and cellos)
- Fifes
- Flutes
- Clarinets
- Recorders (descant)
- Mixed woodwind (e.g. equal amount of …)
- Trumpets
- Cornets
- Trombones
- Mixed brass (e.g. equal amount of trumpet, cornet, trombone)
- Mixed orchestral set (woodwind, strings and brass)