Musical Instrument Check-out – In collaboration with instrument donations and repair help from many Lopezians, the Lopez Island Library has a wonderful collection of instruments that circulate for a month at a time and can be renewed by any library card holder.
The New York Times featured The Lopez Library as an “innovator” among public libraries due to our musical instrument checkout program in the March 7, 2014 article, “Breaking out of the library mold.”
Our Musical Instrument collection continues to grow, and we welcome functioning instrument donations. Here is a list of the instruments currently in our collection, all available to check-out with a library card:
Accordions
Acoustic Guitars
Autoharp
Banjos
Bongo Drums
Box Drum
Cellos
Clarinets
Concertina
Conga Drum
Djembe Drum
Dulcimer
Electric Bass
Electric Guitars
Flugelhorn
Flutes
French Horn
Keyboards
Mandolins
Recorders
Trumpet
Ukuleles
Violas
Violins (various sizes)
Xylophone