SYCAMORE –The Sycamore High School Music Department recently received a generous grant from the Sycamore Education Foundation to purchase marching percussion and two full-size basses.

“We currently have a large number of students studying bass, so we did not have enough full-size basses for everyone to play on,” orchestra director Ken Tonaki said. “Our middle school students were playing on smaller-sized basses.”

The grant purchased two full-size instruments for the middle school, which has never had full-scale basses before, Tonaki said.