If you have an old instrument laying around collecting dust, donate it to the library and add to our growing collection of "community instruments".
Learning materials such as books, cd's and dvd's are also available at the library for checkout.
John Catt on Check Out the Music & BITS
Today was very rewarding in a few ways, I'd like to share. I had a guitar to drop at the library, it was a small one that we bought for kids hands, regular tuning and great tone. A real good playing guitar.
I got to the library and had the guitar in its own little case. As I enter thru the door I notice a young girl, 10 yrs old I guessed, and she had the full sized acoustic guitar that we had given in the first batch. She saw me and the small guitar case and said " is that the small guitar I've been hearing about", I was charmed immediatley and said " I guess it is". She was a fifth grader, could not play a note but was thrilled that she might someday. We hung out for a few minutes and I played her some of my John Lee Hooker stuff and she smiled, a friend of hers came in and we chatted a bit and I showed her how to use the tuner. From there I went into the main room of the library and there was another couple of kids playing with the red Stratocaster, and kids standing around checking them out . The place was buzzin with kids talking about the "Check out The Music" program.
The little girls mom came in to get her and the guitar and told me that she had been in Yaniv's harmonica workshop last week and hadn't stopped playing the harmonica since. This parent was going to be supportive of anything this child wanted to do musically.
The GCBS has planted a garden full of musicians. We could put 50 guitars in Fraser and they would be gone. Its apparent that in a few years we will have some kids that can play something musically.
Anna told me that the library was full today of kids and parents coming to get a guitar or sign up for one. I assumed that Maria and Yaniv made it known at the school program that the guitars were there.
The enjoyment and satisfaction I got from being usefull today was like gold. Even in Safeway a mother and her two kids stopped me and the mom said to her daughter," remember who we were going to say thank you too and for what" She wanted to thank us for the program BITS did last week in Fraser. She got to see the end of it herself. Very cool.