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Grade 10 students Foster Allan, right, and Moses Koonoo, left, play guitar at their school's music club. A whole gaggle of new instruments will be shipped from Nova Scotia to Pond Inlet.

Students set to jam in Pond Inlet

John Thompson
Northern News Services

Pond Inlet (Apr 18/05) - The Nasivvik music club in Pond Inlet's school only has a handful of instruments right now, but that will soon change.

Guitars of all sorts, flutes, a trumpet, a ukulele, a banjo and even an autoharp are being donated to the club by a choir in Nova Scotia.

Grade 10 student Foster Allen, who plays electric guitar, says jamming is always more fun with friends. While he likes playing heavy guitar licks of bands like No Remorse, he says he's still excited to hear about the new instruments.

A survey conducted earlier in the year showed that half of the students wanted to play musical instruments. That led to the creation of the music club in October, by teacher Julie Lohnes.

There's a family connection: the president of the choir who will donate the instruments is Lohnes' mother.

The music club originally hoped the instruments would be shipped over before the end of the school year, but the steep cost of flying the instruments appears to be prohibi