Supplies: What You'll Need and Where To Order From


Preschool Supply List:

  • piece of cardboard: large round (like you find in a pizza box), or large rectangular (side of a cardboard box)

  • stickers (for fun and for marking things on the violin)

  • “Foam-a-lin” trainer violin and bow

  • tennis ball (or hacky-sack, or some other soft ball about the same size)

  • mechanical pencil and a fat kindergarten pencil (unsharpened, or with the sharpened end duct-taped)

  • Suzuki Violin School vol. 1 (revised) repertoire book (for parent), and CD (for parent and student)

  • extra blank CDs (to make copies of the master CD)

  • 3-ring notebook and tabbed dividers to hold punched repertoire book, hand-outs, lesson notes



Beginner Supply List:

  • stickers

  • mechanical pencil

  • Suzuki Violin School vol. 1 (revised) repertoire book (for parent), and CD (for parent and student)

  • extra blank CDs (to make copies of the master CD)

  • 3-ring notebook and dividers to hold all private lesson sheet music and notes



Transfer Student Supply List: for students who have previously studied with another private teacher

  • 3-ring notebook with copies of previous revised Suzuki repertoire books installed, plus dividers)

  • current Suzuki repertoire book, as assigned, installed in the notebook

  • current Suzuki listening CD, as assigned

  • scale and/or etude books, as assigned



Students who are actually playing are expected to have certain items at hand for practicing:

  • good rosin (please throw the stuff that comes in the little wooden or plastic box in the trash can...)

  • tuning fork or metronome with a built-in tuning tone (A=440)

  • hankie or soft cloth for cleaning the violin after practice

  • pencils with erasers

  • a music stand

  • extra strings (in case one breaks)

  • other things as mentioned or requested



Suppliers of these (and many other) fine musical things:

Shar Products Company – http://www.sharmusic.com

Young Musicians Inc. -- http://www.ymonline.com

  • YM seems to be the only place from which to order Foam-a-lins.

Johnson String Instrument – http://www.johnsonstring.com



Rental Instruments

For Des Moines area rentals, please go to Becker Fine Stringed Instruments www.beckerfineinstruments.com

Potter's Violins – www.pottersviolins.com

KC Strings – www.kcstrings.com

Johnson String Instrument – http://www.johnsonstring.com