<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear MASTA Members,<div><br></div><div>I need a little help! Last week during the MASTA Summer Camps a local Howell resident saw our signs and contacted me looking for information on string opportunities around Howell Michigan. Being from the "west side", I'm not sure of all the opportunities. The e-mail from the mother is below, so if anyone could contact me with any opportunities this girl may have around Howell I would appreciate it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Much</div><div>Dan Scott</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; "><font size="2">Hi Dan,</font><br><font size="2">You and I spoke on the phone a few weeks ago about the camp you had out at Howell Nature Center. We missed that program due to our recent move back to Michigan. We are still in our move process and I am just getting back from training out of state. But you may recall my daughter was playing violin through the SC school system. She will be entering 7th grade in the fall and just has the one year of experience. Her school in Howell does not have a strings program.</font><br><br><font size="2">You were going to recommend some resources for her to continue to pursue playing after school. I am hoping to find an organized program that she can participate in outside of private lessons as they are expensive and I could probably only budget once or twice a week and I don't know how much she would learn in that limited amount of instruction.</font><br><br><font size="2">Also if she were to take band in school (rather than the alternative of choir) what would be the best transitional instrument to choose when coming from the violin?</font><br><br><font size="2">Thank you so much for your time as she does want to keep playing and I want to encourage her.</font></span></div></body></html>