Instrument Donations
Coastal Concerts’ Community Outreach Committee is in its sixth year of the Toot Your Own Horn Program. The program collects musical instrument that are no longer in use and donates them to elementary music students in the Cape Henlopen School District.
Coastal Concerts would like to thank the following for their donations this year:
- Earl Kreiser, New Jersey - Saxophone
- Brian Patterson, Lewes - Piano
- Marcy Parykaza, Lewes - Piano
- Don & Nancy Smith, Lewes - Flute
- Betsey Von Dreele, Harbeson - Flute
Coastal Concerts administers Toot Your Own Horn, a used instrument collection program to benefit Sussex County music students. The program receives usable musical instruments which are no longer in use and donates them, primarily, to the elementary school music education program in the Cape Henlopen School 
District. Instruments which cannot be used in that program may be donated to other school programs or to students in Delaware non-profit music education programs such as First State Strings.
If you have an instrument, or instruments you would like to donate to Toot Your Own Horn, please contact the Coastal Concerts Outreach Coordinator at 1-888-212-6458 and select the "Outreach" option or via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , to arrange for instrument pick-up or delivery. Donations of musical instruments through Toot Your Own Horn may be tax deductible.
Past Recipients |
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Ruth Mankin, volunteer, joins Ken Schleiffer and band members in celebration of the success of the "Toot Your Own Horn' instrument drive. |
Ken Schleifer, instrument music teacher of elementary schools in the Cape Henlopen School district, is pictured with Richard A. Shields students studying the trumpet. |
Donations Made Possible By |
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Ken Schleifer, elementary music teacher (and volunteer piano mover), and Dolores Fiegel, Coastal Concerts Outreach Chair, accept a piano from a Lewes resident. |
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