Request from the Shedd Institute for the Arts: Please help pass on the joy of music to an eager new generation! Donate your idle musical instruments, sheet music, and records to The Shedd Institute’s Instrument Bank and Music Archive today!

Details: From accordion to zither, if you have a musical instrument taking up space — even if it’s a bit dinged up from past loving use — The Shedd Community Music School would love to have it. The school uses a wide variety of instruments in its weekly Music Box class, where students in kindergarten through fifth grade get to experience a different instrument each week. Some donated instruments also serve as low-cost rentals for beginning students or those who just want to try out different forms of music-making before they commit to a purchase.

The RE-PLAY program accepts not only instruments but also sheet music (loose-leaf, lesson books, bound books) and musical recordings in the form of vinyl, CD, shellac, almost everything (except maybe wax cylinder).

How to donate: Drop off at The Shedd’s ticket office at 868 High St. between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday or call the music school at 541-434-7012 for other options.

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