Supply List by Instrument

Please reach out to your student’s band teacher if you would like financial assistance with purchasing the items.

All Instruments

  • Essential Elements Book 1 (5th/6th) (starting 7th grade 21-22)
  • Essential Elements Book 2 (6th/7th) (starting 8th grade 21-22)
  • Essential Technique Book 3 (8th) (starting 9th grade 21-22)
  • 3-4 sharpened pencil & band folder
  • Name tag/Sticker on outside of instrument case
  • Music stand for home practice and quiet, well-lit room to practice
  • Uniform (please see building handbooks)
  • Flip Folder and Lyre (High School Bands)

Flute

  • Cleaning Rod
  • Soft cloth to attach to the rod.

Oboe & Bassoon

  • Silk Cleaning swab
  • Small empty container (i.e. medicine bottle) for water
  • Minimum 2-3 reeds (medium-medium hard)
  • Cork grease
  • Reed case (one that holds several reeds)

Clarinet

  • Mouthpiece (upgrade to Vandoren B45 in 6th grade)
  • Minimum 3 new reeds (strength depends on experience)
  • Reed guard (one that holds several reeds)
  • Cork Grease
  • Silk cleaning swab

Bass Clarinet (students will rotate per concert cycle)

  • Mouthpiece (Yamaha 4c provided by school)
  • Minimum 2 reeds (strength depends on experience)
  • Reed guard (one that holds several reeds)
  • Cork Grease
  • Silk cleaning swab

Saxophone: (includes tenor and baritone saxophone)

  • Mouthpiece
  • Minimum of 3 new reeds (strength depends on experience)
  • Reed guard
  • Cork grease
  • Large cleaning swab for the body of the sax AND
  • Small silk cleaning swab for the neck and mouthpiece (clarinet cleaning swab works great for this)

Trumpet

  • Mouthpiece size 7C (upgrade to 5C in 7th/8th grade)
  • Valve oil
  • Soft cloth
  • Slide grease

French Horn

  • Holton medium mouthpiece (Farkas)
  • Soft cloth
  • Rotor oil
  • Rotor string
  • Slide grease

Trombone

  • Mouthpiece (5G or 6 1⁄2 AL)
  • Soft cloth
  • Slide grease
  • Slide oil/small squirt bottle for water

Baritone

  • Mouthpiece (5G)
  • Soft cloth
  • Slide grease
  • Valve Oil

Tuba

  • Mouthpiece (Yamaha C4/Helleburg)
  • Soft cloth
  • Slide grease
  • Valve Oil

Percussion: (along with snare/bell kit)

  • Fifth Grade Percussion:
    • General Zildjian Stick Bag
    • Snare Sticks: Vic Firth SD1 General
    • Hard Bell/Keyboard Mallets: Mike Balter 10AB
  • Sixth Grade Percussion: (Same as above plus)
    • Hard rubber/Keyboard Mallets: Mike Balter MB6B [$21.99]
  • Seventh Grade Percussion: (Same as above plus)
    • Timpani Mallets: Vic Firth T1 General
  • Eighth Grade Percussion: (Same as above plus)
    • Marimba/Vibe/Cym. Mallets: Mike Balter MB13B
  • High School Percussion: (Same as above plus)
    • Timpani Mallets: Vic Firth T3 Staccato
    • Brass Bell Mallets: Mike Balter B9B
    • Pitch Pipe/Tuning App or equivalent for timpani Tuning

*Many of these materials can be purchased at an instrument vendor or online. For the easiest and most continent purchasing, Marshall Music will complete online orders or over the phone, and have them delivered each week. Here is a list of possible vendors.