We rent an alto saxophone and a violin from AAA Band Rental through Norwalk Music in Norwalk. The instruments are awesome! The teachers of both of my children now recommend them to everyone in their program. We were renting through the huge company the school used to use and we had nothing but billing issues and two beat up "junkers!" My son has been playing violin for 7 years and is finally in a full size instrument. The rental violin we received is "The best rental violin my son's teacher said he has ever seen!" Although we can't find the brand name anywhere, we've been told by several top orchestra players that this instrument is probably hand made and is a "keeper"! The saxophone was new when we got it and we'll probably be buying that as well! The staff at Norwalk music is also very good and worth mentioning too!