The following is from the American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestra Association
Why Strings? -All children are capable of learning to play a stringed instrument, regardless of talent, giftedness, or musical background. String classes have been successfully taught to diverse populations and in diverse settings.
-Stringed instruments come in a variety of sizes so that children as young as three years old can begin instruction.
-Orchestral music, which is considered one of Western culture's greatest treasures, cannot be performed without stringed instruments.
-Contemporary music increasingly relies on strings. Some of the popular musical genres that feature stringed instruments include jazz, country, pop, mariachi, and Tejano. Other world cultures also use stringed instruments in their music making.
-Lifelong opportunities to perform on a stringed instrument abound. According to the American Symphony Orchestra League, opportunities exist for adult musicians in more than 1,500 orchestras in the United States. Greats in all fields have played stringed instruments for lifelong fulfillment counting among their number Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein.