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Sun Life Financial Instrument Lending
Let's make music together.
Explore your musical interests with free access to a variety of instruments — all you need is your Regina Public Library card!
The main instrument collection is located at Central Library, in downtown Regina, with additional instruments available at our Sherwood Village Branch.
Find and place a hold on an instrument using our library catalogue or stop in at Central Library or Sherwood Village Branch for assistance with borrowing instruments.
Never played before? No problem! You can also access free step-by-step video lessons for a variety of instruments through our digital services:
For helpful book lists, tutorials, web links, and apps go to individual instrument pages by searching for the instrument topic you want here.
About the Program
The Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library at Regina Public Library is made possible with generous support from Sun Life Financial. RPL is pleased to partner with Sun Life Financial to offer free access to musical instruments to Regina Public Library cardholders through their Making the Arts More Accessible program.
Instrument photos courtesy of Vancouver Public Library.
FAQs
We have a variety of stringed instruments such as acoustic guitars (nylon-stringed and steel-stringed in vario...
You'll need a valid Regina Public Library account in good standing with less than $10 owing in outstanding fee...
No. Instruments are only available to Regina Public Library cardholders. They cannot be checked out with Commu...
You can borrow an instrument by yourself! Just be sure to bring your library card (or digital barcode in our a...
You can borrow one instrument at a time.
The loan period for instruments is 21 days.
If no one has requested that instrument, you can renew for an additional 21 days. There is a limit of two rene...
Yes, but there is a limit of only one instrument hold per card at any given time.
Instruments are kept at Central Library and Sherwood Village Branch. If you know which instrument you want to ...
You'll have seven days to pick up your instrument after it becomes available for pick-up. The person that plac...
There are books and DVDs in the library collection that can help you learn to play the instrument. Our LinkedI...
Instruments must be returned to the location you borrowed them from during open hours.
A late fee of $1 per day will be added to your library account, up to $42.
As with other library materials borrowed, you are responsible for musical instruments borrowed on your card an...
We welcome donations of gently used stringed instruments, keyboards, and light percussion.
We cannot accept wind instruments or pianos.
If you'd like to donate an instrument, you can bring it to Long and McQuade (1445 McIntyre Street) or Central ...
As with other donations to Regina Public Library, the library reserves the right to decide on the disposition ...
No. Charitable tax receipts will not be provided for donated instruments.
String instruments
Keyboard instruments
Percussion instruments
