What to Do...

This semester for one of my classes (educational psychology) i have to do field experience with the class. I decided to teach the Music Plus program. Music Plus is a program that was started to benefit both the Toledo Public Schools (TPS) and BG music ed students. Only the best of the best TPS students get a chance to come, and there is a waiting list of ~80 students, 33 are enrolled right now. At music plus, BG students give a 1/2 hour lesson to students for free. This benefits them by getting free lessons they can't afford and benefits us by teaching the mostly suburban middle class BG students how to deal with inner city school kids.

Last night was the fist time we met with our students. I have this kid who is an incredible mellophone player. He wails above the staff and has a good knowledge of beginning theory (major and minor scales, triads, etc) and wants to major in music. He's a junior in high school. I asked him what instrument he wants to audition for college on (he plays trumpet, trombone and sax too) and he tells me he wants to audition on the mellophone. That's fine and dandy, but you can't audition on the mello, it has to be the french horn. He's never touched a horn in his life. He told me he doesn't want to audition on the other instruments that he knows because he like the mello best and is really interested in learning to play the horn. Most of the time the program can provide instruments for them to use, but a horn is too expensive. He also told me that he plays mello for concert band too, meaning that the school most likely doesn't have any horns. What to do? He sure as hell isn't touching my horn, i could prolly get a horn owned by BG, but he couldn't take it home to practice. So I have a delimma.....