Tin Whistles are available from the Club and cost £3. Beginner and Junior Classes are taught using Club Tutor books which have accompanying CDs or cassettes. These cost £5. Intermediate and Senior students are taught by ear and should bring along some form of recorder to class. Advice on instrument purchase can be obtained from Club officials and tutors. It is important to buy the best instrument you can afford, as it is impossible to play good music on bad instruments. Small children need half or three-quarter size fiddles - check with the fiddle teacher before you buy one. You should also have valuable instruments insured.

Instrument loans Pupils are expected to provide their own instruments. Advice on instrument purchase can be obtained from Club tutors. It is important to buy the best instrument you can afford, and to ensure that instruments are insured. APC has a small stock of instruments which we have lent to pupils already in the club and recommended by their teachers. From September, instrument loans will be for one academic year only (Sept 08- June 09). Instruments must be returned in June. Loan fee will be £20.