Unpack/Pack
DEMO: Take Bass #6 off the rack
(use both hands on the bouts, lift up and doesn’t drag the bass off the rack, gently puts on the ground on its side or stands up next to body)
Miss G or Miss Raymond must give explicit permission for this
(students entering the storage room)
DEMO: being a good audience member
(sitting, watching intently, no noise)
this part of the cello/bass adjusts the height
endpin
Each instrument has 4 of these
strings
DEMO: Take V50 out of it's locker
Walk into room quietly and calmly, open the locker, get the correct violin, close the locker, return to seat
These instruments are small enough to hold 2 per locker
violins
DEMO: show 1 proper way of using a bow
(acceptable: holding without touching the hair, laying down on a stand, putting away on a rack)
only violins and violas get to use these
lockers
The 1 part of the bow you CANNOT touch
hair
DEMO: Put away a bow
(loosens the bow enough, puts bow in the correct slot, secures slot)
This thing must be kept to a minimum when entering the storage room
noise
These 2 behaviors will result in immediate confiscation of your bow
(Sword fighting, intentional stabbing whether real or playful/mimicked)
DEMO: put v51 back in it's locker
(case is fully closed, holding by the handle, walking calmly and slowly, putting instrument back in the correct locker)
This is the part cellos need to grab to pick up their instrument
neck
DEMO: Walk from the storage room to your chair with Cello #9 and it's bow
(picks up cello by the neck, picks straight up to not drag, takes corresponding bow without touching bow hair, keeps cello off the ground while walking slowly and safely to chair)
Cellists must be extra careful around 1 of these items due to its current condition
cello rack
You must keep the storage room these 2 things
neat and organized
Name 3 inappropriate way of handling an insturment
(acceptable: dragging, intentionally holding incorrectly, hanging by the music stand, leaving on the floor, holding too many instruments at once, swinging around, being reckless with our bodies while holding an instrument, resting on the instrument, eating while using instrument)
The part of the bow where your hand actually goes
frog
DEMO: Put away cello #10 and it's bow
(loosen bow, push ending in, pick cello up by the neck, walks slowly and safely to the rack, puts cello and bow back in the correct spot)
Students generally should never be in this section of the storage room
middle lockers
The main 2 reasons for these rules
(Student Safety, and instrument safety cuz they’re expensive)
DEMO: Putting a cello down to go to the bathroom
(down on its side, endpin in, bow on the stand or on chair, cello laying next to the chair not in front)
This part holds up the strings to give them tension
bridge