Always provide an instrument for your child to practice on. The better the instrument, the better for your kids success.

You can rent most instruments, but we recommend buying an instrument so the student has a vested long term interest in mastering it.

Use incentives when purchasing a higher quality instrument. Tell your child you will get the better instrument after they have shown they will go to lessons and practice for an agreed upon time frame, 3 months for example. In the meantime they will use a good "entry level" instrument.

When buying your childs instrument, we recommend buying two instruments so the parent can join along and bond with the child by experiencing the process of learning and taking lessons together if at all possible. You will make life long memories doing this. Its well worth the investment.