Dorset Percussion

Assisted Instrument Purchase Scheme

Here’s a neat way of getting hold of an instrument with a huge discount. Most schools run an Assisted Instrument Purchase Scheme – it’s a scheme that allows students to purchase musical instruments with the VAT knocked off. That’s a 17.5% discount!

criteria

There are some criteria you have to meet:

• The student must be in full-time education at a Local Education Authority School.

• The student must be receiving tuition at the school as part of their curriculum or privately in support of curricular activities (e.g. GCSE Music)

• The instrument must be appropriate to the students needs. (A beginner cannot buy a £30,000 drum kit !)

• The instrument must be portable

• The instrument must be charged to the student/parents at or below the schools cost (excluding VAT)

The “instrument must be portable” clause is the tricky one for drummers. Some schools say that a drum kit is portable, others don’t. You will have to ask your head of music. If that fails, you can always purchase a portable kit like an Arbiter Flats, the Traps Kit, the Sonor Jungle Kits or the Yamaha Hip Kits.

more than just drums

What’s more, the Instrument Purchase Scheme can also used to purchase cymbals, stands and a whole host of other accessories like latin gear (congas etc). You would even qualify when buying tuned percussion as xylophones, glockenspiels and some makes of timpani are highly portable.

to find out more...

So if you want to know more, speak to your Head of Music at your school.