Improving Accessibility to Musical Education
Transforming Lives, One Note at a Time.
We Are Instrumental’s mission is to improve accessibility to musical education for children in Northern NY by providing well-working instruments and dynamic enrichment opportunities, and supporting the sustainability of our efforts through relevant professional development training for teachers of the region. WAI is a 501(c)(3)
Empowering Students and Teachers
Explore our multi-faceted approach to providing a good musical education to children in Northern, NY while supporting our local teachers.
A Call to Action
Have a gently-used instrument that’s collecting dust? We can help! WAI will get that instrument up and running and into the hands of kids.
Don’t have an instrument? There are lots of ways you can help:
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
— Leonard Bernstein
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