9News: BRINGING MUSIC TO LIFE GOT MORE THAN 1,000 DONATED INSTRUMENTS AND NOW HAS ONE MORE HURDLE

The organization that provides instruments to students in struggling music programs needs more schools to apply.

By KATIE EASTMAN, 9News

 At Rocky Mountain Music Repair in Broomfield, owner Brian Stevenson is no stranger to cleaning old student instruments.

"Get all the chocolate chip cookies, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and things out of 'em and kind of get 'em all refreshed that way," he said while scrubbing a tuba.

Stevenson has become an expert in cleaning donated instruments that have sat in closets for decades. He can handle that. It's the next step of the process he needs help with.

"We don’t yet have enough applications from schools," said Steve Blatt, the program's executive director. "We just want to give these away to schools that need them."

As of Tuesday afternoon, 28 schools have applied.

Last year, they donated 684 instruments to 45 schools.

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