On a crisp October day, musicians, parents, and longtime Detroit residents lined up outside Detroit Harmony on Cass Avenue to drop off trumpets, saxophones, guitars, drum kits, and other instruments bound for local students.

Detroit Harmony is collecting instruments, which the nonprofit will refurbish and distribute to students across the city who lack access to music education.

Every child in Detroit deserves the opportunity to play an instrument.

Not everyone has the opportunity to learn how to play an instrument or even own one. That’s why the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is holding an instrument drive to give the gift of music to students from Detroit.