Instruments and Equipment

Lending of most musical instruments for Dartmouth students is managed through the Hopkins Center.

Please note: Due to the logistics surrounding the Hopkins Center renovation, instruments will only be available to students who are (1) actively participating in or auditioning for a Hop Ensemble, (2) actively enrolled in or auditioning for an Individual Instruction Program course (lessons), or (3) enrolled in a MUS 50 Performance Laboratory or another music course that requires an instrument.

To borrow an instrument from the collections of the Hopkins Center Ensembles, or to request access to Hopkins Center-managed student instrument storage in the basement of the Sudikoff Laboratory, please fill out and submit the Hopkins Center's Instrument Request Form and/or Instrument Storage Request Form. If approved for an instrument and/or storage access, you will receive an email from Sarah McCorkle (sarah.l.mccorkle@dartmouth.edu) with further instructions.

The Department of Music and its BritTrax Recording Studio provide Dartmouth students access to equipment not available through the Hopkins Center or Jones Media Center, including music recording equipment (microphones, audio interfaces, headphones, and more), MIDI controllers (keyboards and DJ controllers), and special instruments (digital pianos, banjo, mandolin, harmonium, tabla, guqin, guzheng, sarod, and tanpura).

Please note that some of our equipment may only be borrowed with the permission of a music faculty member for use in a specified course. 

To request equipment from the Department of Music, please complete and submit our Equipment Request Form. 

If your request is approved, you may visit the Department of Music at Sudikoff Room 102-103 to pick up or return the equipment during our open hours: Monday–Friday, 9 AM–4:30 PM. Unless notified otherwise at check-out, the length of your check-out period extends to the end of the current academic term, and your equipment will be due for return on the last day of the final examination period. Borrowers accept full financial responsibility for the loss, theft, or damage of equipment borrowed from the Department of Music. 

For music notation programs, digital audio workstations, and other music software available to Dartmouth students, see the Composition and Recording page of the Dartmouth Library's research guide for music. 

If the equipment you need is not available through any of the on-campus sources described above, you may consider the following off-campus musical instrument rental sources:

• Hanover Strings
• Ellis Music
• Blue Mountain Guitar